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Idioms and Phrases
In part payment of a debt, as in He paid half the amount on account . [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
County are seriously considering moving on account of the fires, and more than 7 in 10 are happy with their own neighborhoods.
Jarrín blamed himself for not speaking English as well as he’d like on account of his career and talking only Spanish at home so his sons could be bilingual — “I sacrificed my knowledge” for them, he claimed.
Growth has flagged on account of slower consumption.
In the 18th century, this “legal incapacity” deprived minors of “the capacity to contract, and to purchase goods on account.”
Department of Building and Safety filed a code enforcement violation against Polizzi in 2017 on account of the tree house lacking building permits.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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