being obliged to answer to an authority for your 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"
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liable to be called to account; "you are answerable for this debt"
morally or legally responsible to a higher authority; "parents are answerable for their child''s acts"
morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
