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{
"term": "accountable",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain them when you are asked",
"sensetop": "accountable to somebodyaccountable for something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The state spends taxpayers’ money and should be **held accountable**."
},
{
"text": "Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.",
"contextForm": "accountable to somebody"
},
{
"text": "Someone must be **held accountable** for the killings.",
"contextForm": "accountable for something"
},
{
"text": "Local authorities should be publicly accountable to the communities they serve."
},
{
"text": "Politicians are accountable to Parliament."
},
{
"text": "Senior managers are directly accountable to the Board of Directors."
},
{
"text": "Someone has to be held ultimately accountable for the accident."
},
{
"text": "The directors are held accountable by the shareholders."
},
{
"text": "The real power lies with a bureaucracy that is not accountable to the public."
},
{
"text": "a democratically accountable parliament"
},
{
"text": "democratically accountable leaders"
}
],
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become", "make somebody"],
"adverb": ["fully", "properly", "personally"],
"preposition": ["for", "to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈkaʊntəbl/",
"audio": "ac/accountable/accountable__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈkaʊntəbl/",
"audio": "ac/accountable/accountable__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}