on account of

Alternative forms

 * on account thereof
 * onaccounta
 * onaccounta

Preposition

 * 1) On behalf of the (monetary) account of;  for the sake of.
 * 2) * 1842 August 29, Treaty of Nanking:
 * and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Government the sum of Three Millions of dollars, on account of debts due to British subjects by some of the said Hong merchants (or Cohong), who have become insolvent, and who owe very large sums of money to subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.
 * 1)  Because of, due to, owing to.

Usage notes

 * When the object of this preposition is brief and animate, the alternative construction is often used instead. If the object is a personal pronoun, that construction is more common; for example,  is more common than.
 * Similarly,, using as a determiner, is more common than.

Translations

 * Arabic: بِسَبَب, لِأَن
 * Egyptian Arabic: بسبب
 * Bislama: from
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἕνεκα
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: mar gheall ar
 * Latin: propter ,
 * Latvian: tādēļ ka, tādēļ, tāpēc ka, tāpēc
 * Norwegian: av hensyn til
 * Polish: z racji
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ri linn
 * Spanish: a causa de, por mor de
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ar gyfrif


 * Russian:


 * Irish:

Conjunction

 * 1)  On account of the fact that: because, since.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:because