on account of English

Meaning on account of meaning

What does on account of mean?

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on account of Expression

— If you do mathx/math on account of mathy/math, you do mathx/math because of mathy/math. It explains the reason you do something. He couldn't read it on account of his bad eyes. She was late on account of having missed the bus.

on account of preposition

— On behalf of the (monetary) account of; (idiomatic, originally, _, figurative) for the sake of.

— For the sake of

on account of conjunction

— (colloquial) On account of the fact that: because, since.

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