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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --B.
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Syn: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
accountable
adj 1: liable to be called to account; "you are answerable for this
debt" [syn: {answerable}]
2: 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" [syn: {accountable(p)},
{answerable(p)}]
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