"call to account" meaning in English

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      "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "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",
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        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "call to account"
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    {
      "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "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"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
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          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
      ]
    }
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