satisfactory account

collocation in English

meaningsofsatisfactoryandaccount

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satisfactory
adjective
uk
/ˌsæt.ɪsˈfæk.tər.i/us
/ˌsæt̬.ɪsˈfæk.tɚ.i/
good or good enough for a particular need ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofsatisfactoryandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsatisfactory account

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With the absence (to leading order) of the axial pressure gradient asatisfactoryaccountof the attached part proved impossible to find.
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At present, no model gives asatisfactoryaccountof the pattern of neural activation and deactivation during dreaming.
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We do not yet have asatisfactoryaccountof higher order types in this generality.
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Finding asatisfactoryaccountof the relations between the representing item and the represented is notoriously difficult.
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Clearly, asatisfactoryaccountof the overpassivization phenomenon will have to hinge on syntax.
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The lexicographer's most obvious requirement is for information that will provide the basis for asatisfactoryaccountof a word's meaning.
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A historical approach will in many cases provide a highlysatisfactoryaccountof a state of affairs that synchronically would look quite random.
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To provide asatisfactoryaccountof the psychophysical results, we need both the added noise and the postreceptoral filter.
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The theory recognizes that we can only get asatisfactoryaccountof moral life when we look to the motives of an action.
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A fullysatisfactoryaccountof biogenesis requires an explanation for both hardware and software.
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More than the physiological causes, it is the acoustical nature of timbre itself 'for which nosatisfactoryaccounthas yet been given'.
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That is, any fullysatisfactoryaccountof transfer and morphology should specify just how cross-linguistic similarity might contribute advantages in listening or reading comprehension.
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Presumably, asatisfactoryaccountof desert would not yield such a reason.
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Admittedly, rejecting the claim that such kinds of use indicate acquisition failure still leaves us without asatisfactoryaccountof what causes such patterns to emerge in bilingual child language.
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It has failed to give asatisfactoryaccountof the fate of thousands of human embryos created in laboratories under the aegis of the authority.
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Subsection (10) should be deleted, unless we are given asatisfactoryaccountof the reason for its inclusion.
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I think on the whole he has produced asatisfactoryaccountof a satisfactory working arrangement.
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Civil plutonium would be transferred abroad only if the country in question were able to give asatisfactoryaccountof how it would be used.
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I have a lesssatisfactoryaccountto give of airships.
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