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account to

account to verb: to answer to; to be responsible to.

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.
    • I don't have to account to you for my actions.
    • 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.2004, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging adulthood: the winding road from the late teens through the twenties, page 217

Examples of account to in a sentence

  • You are the one paying me, and you are the one I account to.2000, Elizabeth Adler, All Or Nothing, page 56:
  • Asked where she's been, June replies in an angry outburst, "Why must I account to you?2009, Chris Fujiwara, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, page 65:

Forms of account to

third-person singular presentaccounts to
present participleaccounting to
past participleaccounted to
pastaccounted to

Questions about account to

What does account to mean?
Account to means to answer to; to be responsible to.
How do you use account to in a sentence?
You are the one paying me, and you are the one I account to.
What part of speech is account to?
Account to is a verb.
What is the past tense of account to?
The past tense of account to is accounted to.

Words near account to in the dictionary

  1. account of
  2. account payable
  3. account receivable
  4. account statement
  5. account statements
  6. account to
  7. accounta
  8. accountabilibuddies
  9. accountabilibuddy
  10. accountabilities
  11. accountability

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