Account Explain Sth Success Meaning Synonym Accounted Year's

Meaning: If you account for something, you explain how it came to be the way it is.

• account for sth We accounted for last year's higher production costs by showing how the price of labour and raw materials had increased.
  
  
• account for sth How can we account for the remarkable success of our latest product?
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with account for: costs, expenses, delays, behaviour, failure, success