Account for sb/sth
*(usually passive) If someone is accounted for,
you know where they are and so do not worry that they are not where they should
be: One small child was still not accounted for.
*If someone or something can be accounted for,
people know where they are or what has happened to them: There was no means of
ensuring that all of them were accounted for. # A sizeable sum of money could
not be accounted for. # Mrs White is accounted for Dr. and Mrs Gill aren’t. #
‘Everyone here?’ –‘All accounted for’- ‘All right, pay attention.’
*To form, use, or produce a particular amount
or part of a group of people or things: Electronic goods account for over 30%
of our exports.
=MAKE UP
*To know where somebody/something is or what
has happened to them, especially after an accident: All passengers have now
been accounted for.
*If something accounts for a particular part or
portion of something, it forms that part or proportion of the whole: Children’s
needs account for a good part of the family budget. # Tea accounted for three
fifths of Sri Lanka’s exports. # 50 percent of 1974 manufacturing sales were
accounted for by foreign-owned enterprises.
*(informal)
To defeat or destroy somebody or something: Our anti-aircraft guns accounted
for the five enemy bombers.
*(old-fashioned)
To account for someone or something also means to defeat or destroy them: An
identical shot to the identical ball which accounted for him on Friday. # We
were helped immeasurably by run-out which accounted for Salim.
account noun,
verb
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