accountability

accountable | American Dictionary

accountable
adjective
us/əˈkɑʊn·tə·bəl/
responsible for and having to explain your actions:
He knew he would be held accountable for any flaws in the programming.

accountability

noun[ U ]us/əˌkɑʊn·təˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
The Attorney General says he has a plan to ensure accountability of CEOs.

accountable | Business English

accountable
adjective
uk /əˈkaʊntəbl/us
responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it:
hold sb accountableOur board will hold me accountable if anything goes wrong.
accountable for (doing) sthMortgage brokers should be accountable for allowing borrowers to take on debts they cannot repay.
accountable to sbThe CEO is ultimately accountable to the board of directors.

Examples of accountable

accountable
Unlike legislative bodies, courts are not directly accountable to voters, and at least in theory, they are not influenced by public opinion.
In settings where responsibility for policy making is most clear, incumbent politicians are held accountable for macroeconomic performances.
Without such connection, we are not responsible, that is, we are not prima facie accountable for the outcome. 33.
The blood banks are legally accountable for blood safety.
Nor have these changes made the executive branch any more accountable to the popularly elected legislature than it was before.
Within the existing international political system, each national government is accountable to its own people.
Finally, the outcomes of the organization's and ethics office's activities are also accountable.
In such cases, interviewers can and do treat interviewees' lesser displays of knowledge as accountable matters.
The mean percentage of glucose uptake accountable for by lactate production in the presence of ouabain was 92%.
Algerian producers were held strictly accountable to the customs union.
Higher rates of self-motivated political participation in turn make elections better mechanisms for holding government officials accountable, and higher-quality democracy results.
Finally, agency officials are not directly accountable to constituencies, since they are appointed.
Judgment should be withheld, not because patients are never accountable, but because clinicians and other healthcare providers are supposed to be partners, not critics.
Even where reforms succeeded in reorganizing state administration along more accountable lines, factionalism and patronage politics undercut executive authority.
In other words, before making state institutions accountable, it is necessary to restore state sovereignty.
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