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Princeton's WordNet

1. account forverb

   be the reason or explanation for

   "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

2. account forverb

   give reasons for

   "Can you account for all these absences?"

How to use account for in a sentence?

1. Joanne Lin:

   From the beginning, this administration has sent the message that State John Sullivan will no longer prioritize efforts to hold the global community to account for human rights, reports of the omission of key passages pertaining to sexual and reproductive rights, women's rights and the rights of marginalized populations, combined with the Administration's deference to known human rights violators like the governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, make us skeptical that these reports present a full picture of human rights around the world.

2. State John Kerry:

   It is critical to us to know that going forward those activities have been stopped. And that we can account for that in a legitimate way, in order to have an agreement to trigger any kind of material, significant sanctions relief, we would have to have those answers.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   We’ll need new legislation to account for the Republicans’ latest attempt to undermine our health care system.

4. Luis Buñuel:

   All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

5. The State Department spokesman:

   All Chief of Mission personnel have been accounted for. We are making every effort to account for the welfare of U.S. citizens in the city.

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