PV - Account for sb/sth

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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PV - Account for sth (to sb)

Account for sth (to sb)

*If a sum of money is accounted for, it has been included in a budget: Grants for each student must be accounted for by the issuing authority. # Indeed, the B-bomber is barely accounted for in existing defence budgets.

                = BUDGET FOR

*(often passive) To say how you have used, or how you will use, an amount of money that you are responsible for spending, especially in your job: She had to account for every penny she spent. # Investors were told that over half their savings had vanished and could not be accounted for.

*To give a satisfactory record of how the money in your care has been spent: We have to account for every penny we spend on business trips.

account noun, verb

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PV - Account for sth

Account for sth

*If you account for something that has happened or that you have done, you explain how it happened or why you did it: He was always prepared to account for his actions. # This cannot be accounted for in such a straightforward way.

*To be the reason why something exists or happens: A number of factors account for the differences between the two scores. # The increase in carbon dioxide emissions may account for changes in the climate.

*To form a particular amount or part of something: Afro-Americans account for 12% of the US population.

*To be the reason why something happens: Recent pressure at work may account for his behaviour.

                =EXPLAIN

*To give a satisfactory explanation of why something has happened or why you did something: Can you account for your movements on that night?

                =EXPLAIN

*If something accounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it: Now, the gene they discovered today doesn’t account for all those cases.

                =EXPLAIN

*To say where all the members of a group of people or things are, especially because you are worried that some of them may be lost: Three days after the earthquake, more than 150 people has still to be accounted for.

*To be the explanation or cause of something: The poor weather may have accounted for the small crowd. # Oh well, that accounts for it (=I understand now why it happened).

*To give an explanation of something: How do you account for the show’s success?

*To be a particular amount or part of something: The Japanese market accounts for 35% of the company’s revenue.

account noun, verb

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                Intro Phrasal Verbs

                Lista básica Phrasal Verbs

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