account for (something)

:  a record of debit (see ²debit 1a) and credit (see ¹credit 2d) entries to cover transactions involving a particular item or a particular person or concern

:  a statement of transactions during a fiscal period and the resulting balance

:  reckoning, computation

:  to think of as :  consider

:  to probe into :  analyze

:  some indeterminate or unspecified thing

:  a person or thing of consequence

:  one having more or less the character, qualities, or nature of something different

:  in some degree :  somewhat

: used as an intensive giving adverbial force to an adjective