accountable

• First attested around 1400.
• account +‎ -able

• IPA^(key): /əˈkaʊntəbl̩/

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accountable (comparative more accountable, superlative most accountable)

1. Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.

   Everyone is accountable to God for their conduct.

   You will be held accountable for your misdemeanors.

   • 2020 April 22, Philip Haigh, “Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, in Rail, page 28:

     "Because the railway is economically and socially vital, it receives large amounts of public money and must therefore ultimately be accountable to government. [...]

2. Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds).
3. Liable to be called on to render an account.
4. (rare) Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.
   • 1703, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms:

     True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.

• amenable, responsible, liable, answerable

• hold to account

• “accountable”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “accountable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.