TAKE INTO ACCOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take into account mean? 

• TAKE INTO ACCOUNT (verb)
  The verb TAKE INTO ACCOUNT has 1 sense:

1. allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something

  Familiarity information: TAKE INTO ACCOUNT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE INTO ACCOUNT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

allow; take into account

Context example:

The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash

Hypernyms (to "take into account" is one way to...):

calculate; count on; estimate; figure; forecast; reckon (judge to be probable)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take into account"):

budget for (calculate enough money for; provide for in the budget)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

An instrument designed to take into account both pain intensity and duration.

(Integrated Pain Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

It should take into account your weight, medicines, lifestyle, and other health problems you have.

(Diabetic Diet, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Also, it does not take into account other risk factors such as the presence of atypical hyperplasia, age of first menstrual period, or age of first live birth.

(Claus model, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers still had to take into account dark matter, which prior research has suggested makes up approximately 93 percent of the galaxy's total mass.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

While their results predicted all stars were born as binaries, they amended their conclusion to take into account limitations in their model by saying most stars formed inside the dense cores of dust clouds are born with a partner.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)