Definition:
- to explain what happened to someone or something; be the reason for
Examples:
- Accounting for what really transpired during the shooting incident, the police officer missed out on some very important details.
- The teacher must account for the frequent absenteeism of her students.
- Poverty accounts for the widespread robbery, thief and drug abuse in the country.
- Terrorism and far-flung presence of different types of deadly diseases account for the potential tourists turning away from visiting the country.
- The security guard on duty must account for the unnoticed and clean burglary in the museum.
- Lack of parental support accounts for the early pregnancy among teenagers.
- The coach should not be accounted for the team’s loss. Everybody must be held accountable instead.
- While trying to account for the result, the chairman of the board of judges was unnerved by the complaining parties.
- Frustration and desperation could account for his resignation from being the president of the company.
- Can you please account for the delay of the distribution of relief goods to the typhoon victims?