Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation; "I can''t account for the missing money"
Verb
furnish a justifying analysis or explanation; "I can''t account for the missing money"
Usage Examples
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
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Other Usage ExamplesI've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children marriage I have a bit of an issue with.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.