accountable
Use Accountable in a sentence
tə adjective
1.
subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.
2.
capable of being explained; explicable; explainable.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | responsible to someone or for some action; answerable |
| 2. | able to be explained |
| accounta'bility | |
| —n | |
| ac'countably | |
| —adv | |
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Accountable
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Example sentences
As long as people are given a handout they will not exert themselves, or become accountable and responsible for their own actions.
Moreover, game criticism may provide a means of holding the game industry more accountable for its choices.
Only by making the police accountable to voters will this change, ministers say.
Student life needs certain autonomy and cannot be organized educationally as strictly accountable activities.
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