adj □ to be answerable to someone for something to be responsible to someone for your actions ○ The manager is answerable to the directors for the smooth running of the office.
an´swer•a•ble
a. 1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. “Will any man argue that … he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God?
Swift.”
2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. “The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable.
Johnson.”
3. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. “What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
Holland.” “This revelation … was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians.
Milton.”
4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] “Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain.
Milton.”
Swift.”
2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. “The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable.
Johnson.”
3. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. “What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
Holland.” “This revelation … was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians.
Milton.”
4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] “Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain.
Milton.”
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