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account for someone or something to know the state of or whereabouts of someone or something. (Usually in reference to some person or thing placed in one's charge.) They cannot account for three of the passengers. See also: account account for something to explain something. Your explanation accounts for everything that has happened. See also: account 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. See also: account How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Augustine's account, who had received the profits for above fourteen years; but not being able to account for what was disposed of by the hospital, very honestly declared he had eight hundred and seventy-two moidores not distributed, which he acknowledged to my account: as to the king's part, that refunded nothing. I had been reading these books without his knowledge, and thus he was often at a loss to account for the forcible impressions which had been made upon my fancy. We shall never know how she came to be there; there is no way to account for it. |
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