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n. - Responsibility to someone or for some activity.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Adjective : He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions. ,a question answerable by mail. ,The amount is not answerable to my needs
  • The best conjecture we can for the present make of what will be hereafter must be taken from what hath already come to pass; and the best guess of what events will be is to be...
  • Is there an answerableness within to the law without?
  • A conformity and answerableness whereunto it doth consist.
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