- responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain them when you are asked
- The state spends taxpayers’ money and should be held accountable.
- accountable to somebody Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.
- accountable for something Someone must be held accountable for the killings.
Extra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsc1- Local authorities should be publicly accountable to the communities they serve.
- Politicians are accountable to Parliament.
- Senior managers are directly accountable to the Board of Directors.
- Someone has to be held ultimately accountable for the accident.
- The directors are held accountable by the shareholders.
- The real power lies with a bureaucracy that is not accountable to the public.
- a democratically accountable parliament
- democratically accountable leaders
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- make somebody
- …
- fully
- properly
- personally
- …
- for
- to
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