B2 Other resources

See the following extracts from the pdf file

account for something

• to explain
• to give an explanation for something

Well, how do you account for the fact that there’s £20,000 missing?
There’s a lot of money not accounted for.

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call something off

• to cancel

We had to call off the meeting because the manager was on a trip.
No one told me you’d called it off. I came all the way from Barcelona!