take account of

idiomatic phrase

variants or take into account
: to give attention or consideration to (something)
a plan that failed to take account of possible weather delays = a plan that failed to take possible weather delays into account
She took account of everything he did and said, pondering it, and trying to make out exactly what he meant, to the inflection of a syllable, the slightest movement or gesture.William Dean Howells
… he developed a mathematical model for projecting production of mineral resources, taking account of expected demand and the amount thought to be still in the ground.Richard A. Kerr
Atmospheric general circulation models … simulate atmospheric processes in three dimensions, explicitly taking into account dynamical processes.Raymond S. Bradley

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Our words take account of the enveloping world, the impossibility of isolating the individual. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 The methods used in the report fail to take account of basic journalistic principles and practice, and often rely on selective interpretations and incomplete evidence. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024 The World Tourism Organization defines it as tourism that takes account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts. Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024 The latter is a structured approach to identifying problems, searching for solutions, and devising an implementation strategy that takes account of real-world constraints and local context. Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for take account of 

Word History

First Known Use

1549, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of take account of was in 1549

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“Take account of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20account%20of. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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