answer for

1. 1.

   furnish a justifying analysis or explanation

   “I can't account for the missing money”

   Synonymsaccount

   Broaderdeclare

Questions about answer for

What does answer for mean?

answer for means "furnish a justifying analysis or explanation".

What is another word for answer for?

Close synonyms include account. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is answer for a common word?

answer for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.