accountability
[uh-koun-tuh-bil-i-tee]
- the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
- Education. a policy of holding schools and teachers accountable for students' academic progress by linking such progress with funding for salaries, maintenance, etc.
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Origin of accountability
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Examples from the Web for accountability
Contemporary Examples
UVA prides itself on holding all students to a high standard of accountability and integrity.
It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.
The center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco, and other human rights organizations went to work to expand the law.
Especially not by the faceless boogymen that spew threats with no accountability.
Sarah Silverman’s History of Pro-Woman, Liberal, and Vagina-Related ActivismAsawin Suebsaeng
October 8, 2014
If anything, women should be held to higher levels of accountability when they decide to have children.
Historical Examples
It has no prescribed nor acknowledged mode of accountability.
The Mormon Prophet and His HaremC.V. Waite
He denies their accountability alike to the Pope and the people.
It has been said that there is no accountability, if not to God.
Get rid of those silly notions about accountability and all that rubbish.
A Gamble with LifeSilas K. Hocking
Moreover, Rufus's sense of accountability was particularly keen.
A Gamble with LifeSilas K. Hocking
Word Origin and History for accountability
n.
1770, from accountable + -ity. Earlier was accountableness (1660s).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper