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Definition of Account for

1. Verb. Be the reason or explanation for. "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

2. Verb. Give reasons for. "Can you account for all these absences?"

Definition of Account for

1. Verb. (transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To be the primary cause of ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To destroy or put out of action. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To constitute in amount or portion. ¹

5. Verb. To make or render a reckoning of funds, persons, or things. ¹

6. Verb. To be answerable for. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Account For

accouchement force accouchements accouches accoucheur accoucheurs accoucheuse accoucheuses accouching account account book

account books account code account executive account executives account for (current term) account manager account managers account of account payable account receivable

account representative account statement account to accountabilities accountability accountability partner accountable accountable cryptomaterial accountable depot

Literary usage of Account for

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"... thereof in his account ; for he is in the nature of a bailiff or servant to the infant, and undertakes no otherwise than for his diligence and fidelity. ..."

2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"And as for the ill end thou sayest they come to, that is most glorious in their account; for, for present deliverance, they do not much expect it; ..."

3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"... selection to account for the incipient stages of useful structures—Causes which interfere with the acquisition through natural selection of useful ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Curiosity, unless wisely held in bounds, is of itself sufficient to account for all errors. . . . But far more effective in obscuring the mind and leading ..."

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