{
    "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
}