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Meaning of account to | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To answer to; to be responsible to.

transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”
You are the one paying me, and you are the one I account to.”
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!”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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