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What does answerable mean?

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

Adjective
  1. Obliged to answer or be called to account (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
  2. (archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).
  3. (now rare) Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
  4. (rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
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Advertisers are answerable to the Advertising Standards Authority, and liquor ads face strong vetting.
Once bloggers started taking advertising money they suddenly became answerable to their advertisers.
However, the bill does not require members to be representative of the local population or answerable to it.
The Assassins kill without remorse in the name of the common folk, but they do so in secret, answerable only to each other.
They are exclusively answerable to Parliament and have to present an annual report on their activity.
Managers make key executive decisions about the running of companies and they are answerable to a board of directors.

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