形容词

1. 有责任的；应作解释的
If you are accountable to someone for something that you do, you are responsible for it and must be prepared to justify your actions to that person.

1. liable to account for one's actions

e.g. governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves
fully accountable for what they did
the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism
he was answerable to no one