Verb
To settle accounts or claims with.
To deal with.
We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.
To take into account.
I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.
According to Arvin's influential suggestion, with Melville, one has to reckon with the "tormented psychology, of the decayed patrician." Source: Internet
Front-runner Keir Starmer is seeking to get past Jeremy Corbyn and return the party to the early glory days of Tony Blair, but whoever the winner is will have to reckon with the party’s hard turn leftward. Source: Internet
But as they are still getting made, we have to reckon with them. Source: Internet
For all their medium-size ambition, the characters seem unwilling to reckon with their present situations, despite the fact that the novel opens with a gunshot — a kind of wake-up call for all involved. Source: Internet
Among the guests is Big Angel’s half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Source: Internet
Mao made a speech on 3 November 1966 which claimed that Albania was the only Marxist-Leninist state in Europe and that "an attack on Albania will have to reckon with great People's China. Source: Internet