answerable
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˈæn.sər.ə.bəl/
- Formal
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responsable
- As the project leader, she is answerable to her supervisor for the team's performance.
- holds you answerable
- make them answerable
So they have to be answerable to some degree.
- So they have to be answerable to some degree.
- They think that they somehow don't have to be answerable to, to voters.
- So you you're running and Google X and you are answerable to to your bosses at Google.
- And that's how you make yourself party boss and say, this is who my staff is going to be, and they're all answerable to me.
Examples
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And some of those people believe that they themselves are answerable to an even higher power.
Blog text (2) -
Who are they answerable to?
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So they have to be answerable to some degree.
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We want it to be answerable to us.
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The king, sir, is answerable only to God.
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Just so, and you shall be answerable for it.
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Every Christian is answerable to Jesus for how he or she lived life.
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The bottom line is we are responsible for ourselves and answerable to God.
Blog text (23) -
I will walk in integrity as a man answerable to God.
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But because they are public schools, they are also answerable to the government for fulfilling the terms of their charters.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
973
2.4
In charge of someone or something and must take care of it
251
4.6
Responsible for actions and must explain them to someone in charge
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5.5
Legally responsible to pay for damage or loss
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7.2
Required to answer to a higher authority
Antonyms
How Responsible
- Specialized
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5.5
251
4.6
- Formal
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6.4
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2.4
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7.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Answerable also keeps an older idea that to answer someone is to explain yourself, with -able adding the sense 'able to be'. So if you are answerable to a boss or the public, you 'must explain' or justify your actions to them.