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account for
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As a verb, account for means be the reason or explanation for.
Meanings of account for
2 meaningsverb
Be the reason or explanation for
“The recession accounts for the slow retail business”
Give reasons for
“Can you account for all these absences?”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).