on account of

1. 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

Another priority is building back the city’s cash reserves, which have dwindled over the years, largely on account of legal payments.

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They had arrested four jornaleros that day, day laborers, eventually releasing two of them on account of the fact that they had papers.

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The question is whether creating majority-minority voting districts violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the 15th Amendment, which says that the right to vote can’t be “denied or abridged” on account of race.

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It isn’t just that players can now get paid, or that they can transfer whenever they want, or that they could stay in school for longer than ever on account of the pandemic.

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But the 75-yard score was ultimately called back on account of backup center J’Onre Reed being too far downfield.

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Related Words

• accordingly 
• so 
• then 
• thus