Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To answer to; to be responsible to.
Usage examples of "account to".
Last Thursday the Pasha had transferred sixteen million dollars from his account to the banks listed on matrix five.
I wondered if I had enough money in my bank account to buy a ticket to Brazil.
Now that I was working at home and could no longer go to school downtown it seemed smart to me to move my account to a little neighbourhood bank near the southside post office substation.
Is there enough reserve in the Emotional Bank Account to enable this child to have an open ear, or will my words just bounce off as though he or she were surrounded by some kind of bulletproof shield?
When you're sending half your bank account to the IRS this April, remember it's because the government thinks geniuses like Chris Shays can spend your money better than you can.
The money had been transferred from Jan's account to that of the shop's.
Maskull again sought the heavy, sombre star, gleaming in solitary might, in the south-eastern heavens, and, as he gazed, his heart swelled with grand and painful longings, for which, however, he was unable to account to his own intellect.
I looked at his palm and heard myself telling him on no account to have anything to do with boats.