Usually means: Responsibility for actions and outcomes.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. accountability: Merriam-Webster
  2. accountability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accountability: Collins English Dictionary
  4. accountability: Vocabulary.com
  5. Accountability, accountability: Wordnik
  6. accountability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. accountability: Wiktionary
  8. accountability: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Accountability, accountability: Dictionary.com
  10. AccountAbility, Accountability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Accountability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. accountability: Rhymezone
  13. Accountability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. accountability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. ACCOUNTABILITY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. accountability: FreeDictionary.org
  17. accountability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. accountability: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. accountability: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. accountability: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  4. accountability: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. accountability: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. accountability: Hacking Lexicon
  3. accountability: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Accountability: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  3. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  4. accountability: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accountability: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
noun:  An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
noun:  An acceptance of good faith of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
noun:  (military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping an accurate record of property, documents, or funds.

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