Impute
(verb)
- To attribute (a quality, action, or condition) to someone or something.
- To charge someone with responsibility for something.
- To ascribe (something, such as a fault or crime) to someone.
Origin:
From the latin imputare (to attribute, charge), from in- (in) + putare (to think).
Examples:
- He imputed the blame for the accident on the driver.
- The company imputed the loss to the new accounting system.
- She imputed the mistake to carelessness.
- The accusations were imputed to him without any evidence.
- The company imputed the success of the project to the team's hard work.