Usually means: Responsibility for actions and outcomes.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word accountability:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. accountability: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  17. accountability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. accountability: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  19. accountability: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  3. accountability: Legal dictionary
  4. 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. accountability: Political
  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:  Good-faith acceptance 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 accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.

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