"account to" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: accounts to [present, singular, third-person], accounting to [participle, present], accounted to [participle, past], accounted to [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} account to (third-person singular simple present accounts to, present participle accounting to, simple past and past participle accounted to)
  1. (transitive) To answer to; to be responsible to. Tags: transitive Related terms: account for Translations (to be responsible to): 作出解释 (Chinese Mandarin), vastata (Finnish), olla vastuussa (Finnish), rendre des comptes à (French), Rechenschaft ablegen (German), Rechenschaft schuldig sein (German), elszámol (Hungarian), magyarázattal szolgál (Hungarian), megindokol (Hungarian), számot ad (Hungarian), rendere conto (Italian), 責任を負う (sekinin o ou) (Japanese), 責任がある (sekinin ga aru) (Japanese), rozliczać się (Polish), responder por (Portuguese), отчи́тываться (otčítyvatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), отчита́ться (otčitátʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), дава́ть отчёт (davátʹ otčót) [imperfective] (Russian), дать отчёт (datʹ otčót) [perfective] (Russian), responder a (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-account_to-en-verb-gCFsYeT0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (to)

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "accounts to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "accounting to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "accounted to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "accounted to",
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    }
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don't have to account to you for my actions."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging adulthood: the winding road from the late teens through the twenties, page 217",
          "text": "Now it's only me that I account to. No one's checking up on me, and anything I do has got to be up to me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Elizabeth Adler, All Or Nothing, page 56",
          "text": "You are the one paying me, and you are the one I account to.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Chris Fujiwara, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, page 65",
          "text": "Asked where she's been, June replies in an angry outburst, \"Why must I account to you? I'm twenty-four. I'm tired of doing the same things every day!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To answer to; to be responsible to."
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To answer to; to be responsible to."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "account for"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "作出解释"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "vastata"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "olla vastuussa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "rendre des comptes à"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "Rechenschaft ablegen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "Rechenschaft schuldig sein"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "elszámol"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "magyarázattal szolgál"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "megindokol"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "számot ad"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "rendere conto"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sekinin o ou",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "責任を負う"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sekinin ga aru",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "責任がある"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "rozliczać się"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "responder por"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otčítyvatʹsja",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "отчи́тываться"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otčitátʹsja",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "отчита́ться"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "davátʹ otčót",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "дава́ть отчёт"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "datʹ otčót",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "дать отчёт"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to be responsible to",
          "word": "responder a"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "account to"
}
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    {
      "form": "accounts to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "accounting to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "accounted to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "accounted to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
      "word": "account for"
    }
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don't have to account to you for my actions."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging adulthood: the winding road from the late teens through the twenties, page 217",
          "text": "Now it's only me that I account to. No one's checking up on me, and anything I do has got to be up to me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Elizabeth Adler, All Or Nothing, page 56",
          "text": "You are the one paying me, and you are the one I account to.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Chris Fujiwara, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, page 65",
          "text": "Asked where she's been, June replies in an angry outburst, \"Why must I account to you? I'm twenty-four. I'm tired of doing the same things every day!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To answer to; to be responsible to."
      ],
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          "responsible",
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        "(transitive) To answer to; to be responsible to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "作出解释"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "vastata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "olla vastuussa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "rendre des comptes à"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "Rechenschaft ablegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "Rechenschaft schuldig sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "elszámol"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "magyarázattal szolgál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "megindokol"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "számot ad"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "rendere conto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sekinin o ou",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "責任を負う"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sekinin ga aru",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "責任がある"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "rozliczać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "responder por"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otčítyvatʹsja",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "отчи́тываться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otčitátʹsja",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "отчита́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "davátʹ otčót",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "дава́ть отчёт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "datʹ otčót",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дать отчёт"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be responsible to",
      "word": "responder a"
    }
  ],
  "word": "account to"
}

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