Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being accountable or answerable; responsibility for the fulfilment of obligations; liability to account for conduct, meet or suffer consequences, etc.: as, to hold a trustee to his accountability; the accountability of parents toward their children, or of men toward God.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
accountable ; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness; responsible for; answerable for. - noun military The
obligation imposed bylaw or lawful order orregulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record ofproperty ,documents , orfunds . The person having thisobligation may or may not have actualpossession of theproperty ,documents , orfunds . Accountability is concerned primarily withrecords , whileresponsibility is concerned primarily withcustody ,care , andsafekeeping . (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun responsibility to someone or for some activity
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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.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jim Horn 2008
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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.
Some Analysis of Duncan and the Disruptors Jim Horn 2008
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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.
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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."
Jennifer Lauck: The Memoir Dilemma: What's With All These Memoirs? Jennifer Lauck 2011
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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.
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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.
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Of course the accountability is being applied upside-down.
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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.
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Number one to review radically the de-ratification law and replace it with what we call accountability and justice law.
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I know one of the things you can do is you can download what you call accountability software.
jackdearing commented on the word accountability
I love your site. It is the best word source I've seen. But I think you missed something on "accountability". Your program computed that it may be heard twice a month and that its largest use is the military. If you watch the news you will hear this word, and transparency" three or four times an evening.
I was also surprised to see it had only been looked up once. That may be the reason your algorithm says it will only be heard twice a month.
Again, thanks for providing this wonderful service.
May 16, 2009