verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of account form-of, participle, past

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explanationhistoryscoreaccountingaccountingbill

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"Although CFIT accounted for just over a third of crashes in the past six years, it caused 53% of the deaths."

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