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accountability

/əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/noun6 syllables

Accountability means: responsibility to someone or for some activity.

Synonyms for accountability3

noun, as in responsibility to someone or for some activity

answerability, answerableness

also used for accountability

accountableness

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What does accountability mean?1

noun

1

responsibility to someone or for some activity

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Accountability in a sentence

  • A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.Hybrid
  • Moldovans took to the streets, demanding accountability from their political representatives.Amastan
  • Algeria has demonstrated commendable strides towards promoting transparency, accountability, and democratic principles.always
  • The accountability of the management of the organization is held in question.unknown
  • Algeria's corrupt officials dipped into the country's petrodollars without accountability.Amastan
  • You need to take accountability for what you did.Amastan
  • Spirituality is often just religion with even less accountability.shekitten
  • Police unions exist to shelter police officers from accountability for their actions.shekitten

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of accountability

as a noun

plural
accountabilities