"call to account" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "calls to account",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calling to account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to account",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "call to account (third-person singular simple present calls to account, present participle calling to account, simple past and past participle called to account)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 26, Paul Clifton, “\"Intolerable\" service cuts under emergency COVID timetables”, in RAIL, number 949, page 8",
          "text": "TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: \"This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something."
      ],
      "id": "en-call_to_account-en-verb-4pkkR-70",
      "links": [
        [
          "challenge",
          "challenge"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ],
        [
          "answerable",
          "answerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-call to account.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/En-au-call_to_account.ogg/En-au-call_to_account.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/En-au-call_to_account.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "call to account"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "calls to account",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calling to account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to account",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "call to account (third-person singular simple present calls to account, present participle calling to account, simple past and past participle called to account)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 26, Paul Clifton, “\"Intolerable\" service cuts under emergency COVID timetables”, in RAIL, number 949, page 8",
          "text": "TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: \"This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "challenge",
          "challenge"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ],
        [
          "answerable",
          "answerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-call to account.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/En-au-call_to_account.ogg/En-au-call_to_account.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/En-au-call_to_account.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "call to account"
}