accountable

responsable

Responsable de ses actes et tenu de les expliquer aux autres.

En anglais simple : Responsible for your actions and expected to explain them to others.

• Managers are accountable for their decisions.
• The government must be accountable to voters.
• Who will be held accountable for these mistakes?

Comment l'utiliser : be accountable for something (You are accountable for the money you spend.); be accountable to someone (The director is accountable to the board.)

Synonymes : responsible, answerable

Contraires : unaccountable

Expressions courantes : accountable for something, accountable to someone, hold someone accountable, remain accountable