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be brought/called to account (formal)

to be forced to explain something you did wrong, and usually to be punished. What concerns us most is that the people responsible for the violence should be brought to account.

See also: brought, call

on someone's account

if you do something on someone's account, you do it because of that person. Don't cook anything special on my account. I'm not even very hungry.

on no account must/should someone do something (formal)

if you tell someone that on no account must they do something, you mean that they must never, for any reason do that thing. On no account must the contents of this document be shown to any other person.

See also: must, should

on your own account

if you do something on your own account, you do it by yourself or for yourself. I decided to ask a few questions about the accident on my own account.

take something/someone into account

to think about something or someone when you are making a decision or a judgement. I hope they'll take her age into account when they're judging her work. They took into account that he'd never been in trouble before. (often + that) Her book takes no account of (= does not consider) recent research carried out in America.

See also: take

turn/use something to good account (formal)

to use something to produce good results. She turned her natural curiosity to good account by becoming a detective.

See also: good, turn, use

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account for something

1. to explain the reason for something. More police on the streets accounted for less street crime.

2. to form the total of an amount of something. In Florida, people over 60 account for more than 25 percent of the population.

call to account

to be forced to accept responsibility for something. Davis published top-secret government information, but he was never called to account for this.

See also: call

on account of something

because of something. Mrs. Popper's vacation in Frankfurt had to be cancelled on account of her husband's illness.

take something into account

to include something when making a decision or judgment. Salespeople have to take into account the differences between their customers.

take no account of something

allow for something

make allowances for someone/something

See also: take

take no account of something

to not consider something. Some teachers seem to take no account of their students' interests or experience.

take something into account

See also: take