What is the meaning of accountable?

adjective

  • Liable to account for one's actions.
    • usage: "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"
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