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

The current bill is “less ambitious” than the 2023 version in that it no longer includes a pathway to citizenship for immigrants — a concession aimed at appealing to Republicans on account of the “political moment that we’re in,” Escobar admitted.

From Salon

While the specifics are unknown, most analysts estimate that the revenue loss on account of a lower GST would be offset by surplus levy collections and higher than budgeted dividends from India's central bank.

From BBC

It’s converging at an “interesting time,” Carr-Glenn said, given the “simultaneous penalty that Black women face in this country on account of being both Black and women.”

From Salon

The deal secured Aston Villa pure profit on account of Ramsey being an academy graduate.

From BBC

Du Bois described the “public and psychological wage” paid to white workers in the post-Reconstruction era on account of their being white.

From Salon

Related Words

• accordingly 
• so 
• then 
• thus