accountable

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ac‧count‧a‧ble  /əˈkaʊntəbəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-koun-tuh-buhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective

1.	subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.

2.	capable of being explained; explicable; explainable.

ac·count·a·ble (-kount-bl) adj. Liable to being called to account; answerable. See Synonyms at responsible. That can be explained: an accountable phenomenon. ac·counta·bili·ty or ac·counta·ble·ness n. ac·counta·bly adv.

Main Entry: ac·count·able
Pronunciation: &-'kaun-t&-b&l
Function: adjective
1 : LIABLE <accountable for the burglary>
2 : obliged to accept responsibility accountable for payment of the check> —ac·count·abil·i·ty /&-"kaun-t&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun

accountable

adj : liable to account for one's 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