account for

Verb
  1. Be the reason or explanation for (synset 202641114)
    "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"
    is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
  2. Give reasons for (synset 200941652)
    "Can you account for all these absences?"
    is a type of: explain, explicate - make plain and comprehensible

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