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on account of
Idioms and Phrases
Owing to, because of the fact that, as in We canceled the beach picnic on account of the bad weather forecast . This idiom was first recorded in 1936.Example Sentences
Food and Drug Administration has since issued a warning to restaurants and retailers not to sell the oysters on account of potential norovirus contamination.
We are disappointed that the opportunity to realize the significant benefits of the merger has been lost on account of Kroger’s willfully deficient approach to securing regulatory clearance.”
“Albertsons’ shareholders have been denied the multi-billion-dollar premium that Kroger agreed to pay for Albertsons’ shares and have been subjected to a decrease in shareholder value on account of Albertsons’ inability to pursue other business opportunities as it sought approval for the transaction.
"We girls were not allowed to feel any inferiority on account of our sex. Everything was equal. We had all the freedom that a boy had; we could ride, climb trees, play any game we chose to. There were no restrictions," she said in an interview about her childhood.
The Surge wrote about this at length in a separate piece, but: Large majorities of the country, Democrat and Republican alike, had decided by 2022 that Joe Biden shouldn’t run for president again on account of his clearly deteriorating physical and mental fitness for office.
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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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