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account for

DEFINITIONS OF: account for

1

v be the reason or explanation for

“The recession accounts for the slow retail business”
Type of:
be
have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

v give reasons for

“Can you account for all these absences?”
Type of:
explain, explicate
make plain and comprehensible
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