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account to en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To answer to; to be responsible to.
   • Asked where she's been, June replies in an angry outburst, "Why must I account to you? I'm twenty-four. I'm tired of doing the same things every day! 2009, Chris Fujiwara, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, page 65:
   • You are the one paying me, and you are the one I account to. 2000, Elizabeth Adler, All Or Nothing, page 56:
   • I don't have to account to you for my actions.
   • Now it's only me that I account to. No one's checking up on me, and anything I do has got to be up to me. 2004, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging adulthood: the winding road from the late teens through the twenties, page 217:

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Translations (24)

ja 責任がある (to be responsible to) · cmn 作出解释 (to be responsible to) · ru дава́ть отчёт (to be responsible to) · ru отчита́ться (to be responsible to) · pl rozliczać się (to be responsible to) · fi olla vastuussa (to be responsible to) · hu elszámol (to be responsible to) · fr rendre des comptes à (to be responsible to) · de Rechenschaft ablegen (to be responsible to) · ko 책임이 있다 (to be responsible to) · ru отчи́тываться (to be responsible to) · de Rechenschaft schuldig sein (to be responsible to) · ja 責任を負う (to be responsible to) · ru дать отчёт (to be responsible to) · bg отговоря пред (to be responsible to) · pt responder por (to be responsible to) · bg отговарям пред (to be responsible to) · hu megindokol (to be responsible to) · ko 책임을 지다 (to be responsible to) · fi vastata (to be responsible to) · es responder a (to be responsible to) · hu számot ad (to be responsible to) · it rendere conto (to be responsible to) · hu magyarázattal szolgál (to be responsible to)