account for

VERB
  1. be the reason or explanation for
    The recession accounts for the slow retail business
  2. give reasons for
    Can you account for all these absences?

How To Use account for In A Sentence

  • The material you choose for surfaces including counters, backsplashes and floors can also account for variations in price.
  • Measurement Intangible assets, such as knowledge and learning, account for a large part of a company's value.
  • Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
  • Wrist, arm or ankle fractures account for 50 percent of injuries.
  • But my eyesight," I asked, "how do you account for its unusual penetrativeness? Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
  • Inbreeding may account for the fact that far fewer than half of all breeding mares foal each year.
  • He was unable to account for the error.
  • To account for the possibility of false negatives, a test should be done more than 3 months after exposure.
  • A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world ... Boing Boing: February 9, 2003 - February 15, 2003 Archives
  • Other rules would account for glide insertion and consonant sharing.
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