accountable

[Ac*count·a*ble]

If you're responsible for your own actions, you are accountable for them. You are accountable for your behavior in school. So even if your friend throws pudding at you at lunch, you don't have the right to fling mystery meat back.

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

Adjective S.
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"


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

a.
Capable of being accounted for; explicable.


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.
Syn. -- Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.

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

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Usage Examples

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Our forefathers got it they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

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Other Usage Examples

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

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