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An example use of account in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… what we do not account for in the model …”
Account means a record of transactions, a financial statement, or a list of transactions.
the word account occurs in english on average 158.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that account can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;
3) people, society, and culture;