
account for
This page is about the phrasal verb account for
FORMALMeaning
If you account for something, you explain how it came to be the way it is.
Synonym
explain
For example
- account for something We accounted for last year's higher production costs by showing how the price of labour and raw materials had increased.
- account for something How can we account for the remarkable success of our latest product?
Nouns often used as objects with account for: costs, expenses, delays, behaviour, failure, success
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