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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accountable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
democratically
▪ That is why we want to make the Commission democratically accountable.
▪ Now we aim to increase further the day-to-day independence of schools and colleges within a democratically accountable framework of local education authorities.
▪ These citizens will be served by instruments of Government at Union level, which are intended eventually to be made democratically accountable.
▪ That layer would not be an imposition; it would be democratically accountable.
directly
▪ Their research has to be applied in the very process of enquiry: it has to be directly accountable in terms of practical pay-off.
▪ In figure 23, A is directly accountable to his manager X for his work being carried out effectively.
▪ These meetings are concerned with departmental performances, for which the managers are now directly accountable.
more
▪ In addition, the legislation is intended to make the Fed more accountable to elected officials by insisting on reforms.
▪ Besides, workers are more accountable and productive on the job site.
▪ They endeavoured, on a number of levels, to make themselves more accountable than previous Labour councils had been.
▪ His remedy, modest given his rhetoric, is that professors should be held more accountable for what they do.
▪ It will all without question make the schools and LEAs more accountable, at least in terms of pupil performance, to parents and public.
▪ Thus, these Watergate reforms failed to make government and the electoral process more accountable, democratic or honest.
▪ More open, more supportive, and more accountable mechanisms are now proposed.
▪ Testing and league tables were established for the consumer and were supposed to make schools more accountable to parents.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hold sb responsible/accountable/liable (for sth)
▪ He was held not liable as there was a real and imminent danger and he had done what was reasonably necessary.
▪ I hold the police responsible for my son's death Voice over Police denied any knowledge of who was on the bike.
▪ In the past, juries have usually sided with the industry, holding smokers liable for the damage they inflict on themselves.
▪ Please, however, do not think that I hold you responsible, in any way, for my own uncertainty.
▪ She would have been held personally responsible and would almost certainly have fallen from office.
▪ The jury that held Simpson liable consisted of six men and six women, ranging in age from mid-20s to mid-70s.
▪ Then he told Hepzibah he'd hold her responsible!
▪ You can not learn team performance without being part of a team that holds itself mutually accountable for achieving specific performance goals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increase in transfer of power from the state to local government would also make institutions more accountable.
▪ And they will be held accountable for doing so.
▪ But I know that you fellows hold me accountable for what I write and what I say.
▪ His remedy, modest given his rhetoric, is that professors should be held more accountable for what they do.
▪ How can doctors be made more accountable for the resources they use and what kind of incentives are appropriate?
▪ It will all without question make the schools and LEAs more accountable, at least in terms of pupil performance, to parents and public.
▪ The major resource users, doctors, were not held accountable for spending taxpayers' money.
▪ Their living conditions are getting worse year by year, politicians are corrupt, often are not held accountable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accountable

Accountable \Ac*count"a*ble\, a.

  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

  2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.]

    True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.
    --B. Whichcote.

    Syn: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accountable

"answerable," literally "liable to be called to account," c.1400 (mid-14c. in Anglo-French); see account (v.) + -able. Related: Accountably.

Wiktionary
accountable

a. 1 Having accountability (individuals have accountability); answerable. 2 Requiring accountability (property or funds require accountability). 3 Liable to be called on to render an account; 4 Being answerable for. 5 Being liable for. 6 (context rare English) Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.

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WordNet
accountable

adj. liable to account for one's actions; "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"

Usage examples of "accountable".

Japanese leaders understood that they would be held accountable for war crimes, they had no way of anticipating the ambitions of the Allies in this regard.

So I ask you again, when the owner of that defective car gets into it and drives over Gough or Franklin streets, knowing those streets are extremely unsafe for cars with faulty brakes, and then injures or kills someone when the brakes do fail, do you advocate that the driver not be held accountable for his reckless, despicably antisocial behavior?

These factors, he alleged, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity posters, religious ministers of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the suspended carcases of dead animals, paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas--these, he said, were accountable for any and every fallingoff in the calibre of the race.

I conceive him to indicate that the realistic method of a conscientious transcription of all the visible, and a repetition of all the audible, is mainly accountable for our present branfulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady.

From a fiscal standpoint, my three-year-old daughter is more fiscally accountable than Yeltsin or Viktor Grozny ever was.

President is not accountable to any court save that of impeachment either for the nonperformance of his constitutional duties or for the exceeding of his constitutional powers.

United States, the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.

He cursed himself for the falsehoods by which he had deceived these brave men, for whose death he would be accountable.

The slums had been created by the blockbusters, and they were never really held accountable.

I have reason to believe he is accountable for the explosion that burned and sank the Leonin Andreyev, and the kidnapping of Congresswoman Loren Smith.

The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.

You need a small group or an accountability Partner who will encourage you, support you, pray for you, love you unconditionally, and hold you accountable.

It was spiritual, having to do with the eternality of the human soul, with the power of God to make man judge himself and hold himself accountable for his sins.

They were dead, primarily, because he, Reynolds, had set foot in Hungary, but he had not been their executioner: only the evil genius of Hidas could be held accountable for that.

Exposed for two years to ignominious dangers, to every species of outrage, to innumerable persecutions, to the steel of the assassin, to the firebrands of incendiaries, to the most infamous charges, 'to the denouncement of' their corrupted domestics, to domiciliary visits" prompted by the commonest street rumor, "to arbitrary imprisonment by the Committee of Inquiry," deprived of their civil rights, driven out of primary meetings, "they are held accountable for their murmurs, and punished for a sensibility which would touch the heart in a suffering criminal.