accountability
IPA: ʌkˈaʊntʌbɪɫɪti
noun
- The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
- An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
- Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
- (military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
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Examples of "accountability" in Sentences
- Of course the accountability is being applied upside-down.
- I know one of the things you can do is you can download what you call accountability software.
- Number one to review radically the de-ratification law and replace it with what we call accountability and justice law.
- The ranking Republican on the committee, though, warns his party will oppose any changes to the bill that would weaken what he calls accountability, flexibility and parental choice.
- One of the best things Pro Publica does – besides reporting – is link to the best of what it calls accountability journalism because that helps support that reporting take note, link-dumb, web-killer Gatehouse.
- The purpose of Renaissance 2010 was to increase the number of high quality schools that would be subject to new standards of accountability - a code word for legitimating more charter schools and high stakes testing in the guise of hard-nosed empiricism.
- Speaking during debate on President Thabo Mbeki's state-of-the-nation address in the National Assembly, he said it was common knowledge that once the deadline had been missed, the term accountability quickly lost its meaning and relevance as a desperate attempt to conceal shortcomings began.
- Ben Yagoda, author of Memoir: A History, is contemptuous of memoir for its lack of what he calls accountability; he insists on interchanging "memoir" with "autobiography" as a way to support his conclusion: "The past four decades will probably be remembered as the golden age of autobiographical fraud."