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ACCOUNTABLE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does accountable mean?

• ACCOUNTABLE (adjective)
The adjective ACCOUNTABLE has 1 sense:

1. liable to account for one's actions

Familiarity information: ACCOUNTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ACCOUNTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Liable to account for one's actions

Context examples:

governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves / fully accountable for what they did / the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism / he was answerable to no one

Similar:

responsible (worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable)

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