accounting for
Giving reason for
Accounting for means explaining or providing the reason for something: How do you account for the discrepancy?
It also means constituting a portion: Women accounting for sixty percent of graduates.
In practical contexts, it means keeping track of: We need to account for every dollar spent.
To account for someone is to confirm their whereabouts or safety: All passengers have been accounted for.
- incorporatingAdding as a component
- clarifyingMaking something understandable
- rationalizingInventing acceptable explanations afterward
- reconcilingResolving a dispute
- adding upSumming together
elucidating · acknowledging · addressing · making sense of · recognizing · justifying · interpreting · integrating · bottom line · attributing · defending · substantiating · accommodating · cooking the books · forecasting · calculating · number crunching · weighing
accounting forignoring
Deliberately not noticing
overlooking · disregarding · neglecting · omitting · excluding
accounting formystifying
Causing complete confusion
obscuring · confounding · muddying · clouding · baffling
accounting fordodging
Avoiding by moving aside
shirking · deflecting · covering up · concealing · disavowing
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