Accountable
adjective
Expected to answer for one's actions.
As the team leader, you are accountable for the project's success.
Often appears as...
- hold someone accountable
- be accountable
adjective
Able to be explained.
The company's success is accountable to its focus on customer service.
Often appears as...
- accountable to something
- accountable for something
adjective
Required to report, explain, or justify something.
The firm was held accountable for any breaches of the law.
Often appears as...
- accountable to a higher authority
- legally accountable
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Expected to answer for one's actions.
As the team leader, you are accountable for the project's success.
Often appears as...
- hold someone accountable
- be accountable
adjective
Able to be explained.
The company's success is accountable to its focus on customer service.
Often appears as...
- accountable to something
- accountable for something
adjective
Required to report, explain, or justify something.
The firm was held accountable for any breaches of the law.
Often appears as...
- accountable to a higher authority
- legally accountable
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Expectation
The term emphasizes that others will judge you based on your actions and performance.
The mayor is accountable to the voters for the city's progress.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Responsibility
Usage often implies a burden of individual responsibility in a role or position.
Teachers are accountable for their students' learning outcomes.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Settings
Most commonly used in professional or work-related contexts to denote responsibility.
Managers are accountable for their team's deadlines.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Expectation
The term emphasizes that others will judge you based on your actions and performance.
The mayor is accountable to the voters for the city's progress.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Responsibility
Usage often implies a burden of individual responsibility in a role or position.
Teachers are accountable for their students' learning outcomes.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Settings
Most commonly used in professional or work-related contexts to denote responsibility.
Managers are accountable for their team's deadlines.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Expectation
The term emphasizes that others will judge you based on your actions and performance.
The mayor is accountable to the voters for the city's progress.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Responsibility
Usage often implies a burden of individual responsibility in a role or position.
Teachers are accountable for their students' learning outcomes.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Settings
Most commonly used in professional or work-related contexts to denote responsibility.
Managers are accountable for their team's deadlines.
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Video examples
Jackson Katz: Violence...
Because ultimately, the responsibility for taking a stand on these issues should not fall on the shoulders of little boys or teenage boys in high school or college men. It should be on adult men with power. Adult men with power are the ones we need to be holding accountable for being leaders on these issues,
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How a handful of tech...
The second is we need new models and accountability systems so that as the world gets better and more and more persuasive over time -- because it's only going to get more persuasive -- that the people in those control rooms are accountable and transparent to what we want.
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Dambisa Moyo: Is China...
What this is telling us is that we need to first establish a middle class that is able to hold the government accountable. But perhaps it's also telling us that we should be worried about going around the world and shoehorning democracy, because ultimately we run the risk
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Innovating to Improve...
future to help us really continue to reduce poverty and we want to make sure that we hold people accountable for that progress we let them know what's happened and really inspire the next generation of leaders who are going to take these tasks on we want them to know
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How to turn protest into...
a way to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds, or, instead, a way to free them from onerous regulations. This brings us to the second strategy, choosing a defining fight. All politics is about contrasts. Few of us think about civic life in the abstract.
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The reporting system...
where those who do wrong are held accountable, where survivors get the support and justice they deserve, where the authorities get the information they need, and where there's a real deterrent to violating the rights of another human being. Thank you.
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How economic inequality...
I think we must make our bosses accountable to their employees in any way we can. I think the take-home message though is that we can improve the real quality of human life by reducing the differences in incomes between us. Suddenly we have a handle
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Calling for change in...
the world so we said as a government we start publishing all our meetings minutes our plans our decisions and we told the public we're going to do this at this time and we would like it to hold us accountable we want you to be in power
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How We Can Make the...
because the world's leaders have promised to deliver them. Let's not dismiss the goals or slide into pessimism; let's hold them to that promise. And we need to hold them to that promise by holding them accountable,
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Isaac Lidsky: What...
I am certain of that. So how do you live your life eyes wide open? It is a learned discipline. It can be taught. It can be practiced. I will summarize very briefly. Hold yourself accountable
Video examples
Jackson Katz: Violence...
Because ultimately, the responsibility for taking a stand on these issues should not fall on the shoulders of little boys or teenage boys in high school or college men. It should be on adult men with power. Adult men with power are the ones we need to be holding accountable for being leaders on these issues,
Video examples
How a handful of tech...
The second is we need new models and accountability systems so that as the world gets better and more and more persuasive over time -- because it's only going to get more persuasive -- that the people in those control rooms are accountable and transparent to what we want.
Video examples
Dambisa Moyo: Is China...
What this is telling us is that we need to first establish a middle class that is able to hold the government accountable. But perhaps it's also telling us that we should be worried about going around the world and shoehorning democracy, because ultimately we run the risk
Video examples
Innovating to Improve...
future to help us really continue to reduce poverty and we want to make sure that we hold people accountable for that progress we let them know what's happened and really inspire the next generation of leaders who are going to take these tasks on we want them to know
Video examples
How to turn protest into...
a way to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds, or, instead, a way to free them from onerous regulations. This brings us to the second strategy, choosing a defining fight. All politics is about contrasts. Few of us think about civic life in the abstract.
Video examples
The reporting system...
where those who do wrong are held accountable, where survivors get the support and justice they deserve, where the authorities get the information they need, and where there's a real deterrent to violating the rights of another human being. Thank you.
Video examples
How economic inequality...
I think we must make our bosses accountable to their employees in any way we can. I think the take-home message though is that we can improve the real quality of human life by reducing the differences in incomes between us. Suddenly we have a handle
Video examples
Calling for change in...
the world so we said as a government we start publishing all our meetings minutes our plans our decisions and we told the public we're going to do this at this time and we would like it to hold us accountable we want you to be in power
Video examples
How We Can Make the...
because the world's leaders have promised to deliver them. Let's not dismiss the goals or slide into pessimism; let's hold them to that promise. And we need to hold them to that promise by holding them accountable,
Video examples
Isaac Lidsky: What...
I am certain of that. So how do you live your life eyes wide open? It is a learned discipline. It can be taught. It can be practiced. I will summarize very briefly. Hold yourself accountable
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Emma Gonzalez
American Activist
You might not be a big fan of politics, but you can still participate. All you need to do is vote for people you believe will work on these issues, and if they don't work the way they should, then it is your responsibility to call them, organize a town hall, and demand that they show up - hold them accountable.
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Hilton Als
American Writer
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.
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Reid Hoffman
American Businessman
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
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Fabrizio Moreira
Ecuadorian Politician
There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
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Herschel Walker
American Athlete
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
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Helen Thomas
American Journalist
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
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Frances Tiafoe
American Athlete
To see my brother, see my friends, I think it builds character for me, just being accountable for myself.
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Harris Faulkner
American Journalist
Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.
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Gina Raimondo
American Politician
I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
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Denis Waitley
American Writer
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Quote examples
Emma Gonzalez
American Activist
You might not be a big fan of politics, but you can still participate. All you need to do is vote for people you believe will work on these issues, and if they don't work the way they should, then it is your responsibility to call them, organize a town hall, and demand that they show up - hold them accountable.
Quote examples
Hilton Als
American Writer
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.
Quote examples
Reid Hoffman
American Businessman
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
Quote examples
Fabrizio Moreira
Ecuadorian Politician
There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
Quote examples
Herschel Walker
American Athlete
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Quote examples
Helen Thomas
American Journalist
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
Quote examples
Frances Tiafoe
American Athlete
To see my brother, see my friends, I think it builds character for me, just being accountable for myself.
Quote examples
Harris Faulkner
American Journalist
Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.
Quote examples
Gina Raimondo
American Politician
I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
Quote examples
Denis Waitley
American Writer
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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