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What does answer to mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word answer to? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see answer,‎ to.
  2. To be accountable or responsible to; to account to; to report to.
  3. To justify oneself to (someone). (usually with have to)
  4. To respond to (a name); to treat as one's own name.
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After I finished off my wee, I turned round to see him watching me and waiting for an answer to his question.
At the post-summit press conference he acknowledged that the measures agreed were not a complete answer to the problem of illegal immigration.
The answer to your search could lie with taking part in a jobseekers course at the Portlaoise Job Club.
In answer to that, since 1967, I have driven about three million miles without accident, or insurance claim I might add.
If spending money like water was the answer to our country's problems, we would have no problems now.
So, whether or not he wanted or needed the money is not actually the complete answer to the question, I ween.

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