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Definition of 'account for' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) account for
be the reason or explanation for
"The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

2. (verb) account for
give reasons for
"Can you account for all these absences?"


Translation of 'account for' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to give a reason for; to explain
I can account for the mistake.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: rekenskap gee Arabic flag Arabic: يُفَسِّـر ، يُبَيِّن السَ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: давам сметка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: explicar Czech flag Czech: vysvětlit German flag German: erklären
Danish flag Danish: gøre rede for; stå til re Greek flag Greek: εξηγώ, δίνω εξηγήσεις για Spanish flag Spanish: dar explicaciones
Estonian flag Estonian: seletust andma Farsi flag Farsi: توضیح دادن Finnish flag Finnish: perustella
French flag French: rendre compte de Hebrew flag Hebrew: לַתֶת דִין וְחֶשְבּוֹן, ל Hindi flag Hindi: जवाब देना
Croatian flag Croatian: objasniti Hungarian flag Hungarian: elszámol (vmivel) Indonesian flag Indonesian: bertanggung jawab
Icelandic flag Icelandic: gera grein fyrir,útskÿra Italian flag Italian: spiegare Japanese flag Japanese: ~を説明する
Korean flag Korean: 설명하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: paaiškinti Latvian flag Latvian: atskaitīties par; izskaid
Malay flag Malay: penjelasan Dutch flag Dutch: verklaren Norwegian flag Norwegian: gjøre greie for, forklare
Polish flag Polish: wyjaśnić Persian flag Persian: توضیح دادن Pashto flag Pashto: ويشل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: explicar Romanian flag Romanian: a explica Russian flag Russian: отвечать за
Slovak flag Slovak: vysvetliť Slovenian flag Slovenian: pojasniti Serbian flag Serbian: objasniti
Swedish flag Swedish: förklara Thai flag Thai: อธิบาย Turkish flag Turkish: açıklamak, hesabını verme
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 說明 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: звітувати, пояснювати Urdu flag Urdu: دلیل دینا، جواب دینا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: giải thích Chinese flag Chinese: 说明

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