account for

to explain, to give a reason

How do you account for your being late?

You must account for your neglect of duty.

You must account for your conduct.

You have to account for your absence.

How do you account for your absence?

How do you account for the fact?

You have to account for the result.

Can you account for all the money you spent?

How do you account for your absence from the meeting?

Can you account for why our team lost?

I cannot account for what has happened.

Unusually low temperatures account for the poor rice crop this year.

I cannot account for her absence from school.

It accounts for the fact.

That accounts for the accident.

That accounts for why the door was open.

That accounts for her delay.

Not one of the girl's teachers could account for her poor examination results.

The student failed to account for the mistake.

What accounts for these symptoms hasn't been discovered yet.

This is the sort of thing you have to account for.

This fact accounts for his ignorance.

Can you account for your absence last Friday?

You have to account for your failure.

You must account for your absence.

You must account for your absence from the meeting.

How do you account for that?

How do you account for the accident?

How do you account for this situation?

How do you account for this fact?

Can you account for your car accident?

We ask you to account for your conduct.

The principal called him to account for being absent without an excuse.

I will account for the incident.

I cannot account for this strange happening.

I accounted for the failure.

A dry spell accounts for the poor crop.

What accounts for the fact that women outlive men?

A politician must always be able to account for money he receives.

Idleness often accounts for poverty.

The typhoon accounted for the closing of school.

No one could account for his poor examination results.

We ask you to account for your delay.

We called him to account for his long absence.

I can't account for his absence.

How do you account for his failure?

He could not account for his foolish mistake.

He couldn't account for his foolish mistake.

He accounted for his strange acts.

Can he account for his action?

He was asked to account for his failure.

Her tears accounted for what had happened.

She was asked to account for her conduct.

Can you account for all the money you spent on your trip?

It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. ... Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.

I must confess that my theory doesn't account for that fact.

The scientific method accounts for measurable uncertainties.

Tom can't account for his whereabouts on the day that Mary was murdered.

Everything must be accounted for.

In your reckoning, what accounts for these phenomena?

How would it be possible to account for the genesis of structures if we are always already within a structure?

Those people will be held to account for their actions.

Can you account for your whereabouts on the night of the murder?

to constitute a part or quantity

Although CFIT accounted for just over a third of crashes in the past six years, it caused 53% of the deaths.

Chemical products account for approximately two-thirds of our exports.

Diet accounts for more than one million deaths.

A study shows lung cancer accounts for 17% of women's cancer deaths.

If these tendencies continue, those aged 65 or more will account for a quarter of the population within 30 years.

Between them, the two largest companies account for a share large than 50% of the market.

Japan is a service economy, in which services account for more than 50% of the GNP.

Imported cars account for less than eight percent.

Dieting accounts for more than one million deaths.

Women represent around half of the world's population but they account for more than 60% of those going hungry.

This item now accounts for 20 percent of our sales.

Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution.

The well-known 80/20 rules applies in that 20% of articles may account for 80% of the citations.