Usually means: Explain, justify, or take responsibility.
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  1. account for, account for (someone or something), account for (something): Merriam-Webster
  2. account for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. account for: Collins English Dictionary
  4. account for: Vocabulary.com
  5. account for: Dictionary.com
  6. account for: Rhymezone
  7. account for: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. account for: FreeDictionary.org
  9. account for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. account for: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. account for: Wiktionary
  12. account for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. account for: Legal dictionary

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  1. account for: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (account for)

verb:  (transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
verb:  (transitive) To be the primary cause of
verb:  (transitive) To constitute in amount or portion.
verb:  (transitive) To make or render a reckoning of funds, persons, or things.
verb:  (transitive) To be answerable for.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy or put out of action.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To kill, as in hunting.

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