account to

verb

To answer to; to be responsible to.

“I don't have to account to you for my actions.”

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Meanings

verbaccount to (third-person singular simple present accounts to, present participle accounting to, simple past and past participle accounted to)

present singular third person accounts to · participle present accounting to · participle past accounted to · past accounted to

  1. transitiveTo answer to; to be responsible to.

    I don't have to account to you for my actions.

    3 more examples

    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.

    2004, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging adulthood: the winding road from the late teens through the twenties, page 217

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

    2000, Elizabeth Adler, All Or Nothing, page 56

    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!

    2009, Chris Fujiwara, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, page 65

Translations

Bulgarian отговарям пред, отговоря пред
  • отговарям пред (otgovarjam pred)to be responsible to
  • отговоря пред (otgovorja pred)to be responsible to
Chinese Mandarin 作出解释
  • 作出解释to be responsible to
Finnish vastata, olla vastuussa
  • vastatato be responsible to
  • olla vastuussato be responsible to
French rendre des comptes à
  • rendre des comptes àto be responsible to
German Rechenschaft ablegen, Rechenschaft schuldig sein
  • Rechenschaft ablegento be responsible to
  • Rechenschaft schuldig seinto be responsible to
Hungarian elszámol, magyarázattal szolgál
  • elszámolto be responsible to
  • magyarázattal szolgálto be responsible to
  • megindokolto be responsible to
  • számot adto be responsible to
Italian rendere conto
  • rendere contoto be responsible to
Japanese 責任を負う, 責任がある
  • 責任を負う (sekinin o ou)to be responsible to
  • 責任がある (sekinin ga aru)to be responsible to
Korean 책임을 지다, 책임이 있다
  • 책임을 지다 (chaegim-eul jida)to be responsible to
  • 책임이 있다 (chaegim-i itda)to be responsible to
Polish rozliczać się
  • rozliczać sięto be responsible to
Portuguese responder por
  • responder porto be responsible to
Russian отчи́тываться, отчита́ться
  • отчи́тываться (otčítyvatʹsja)to be responsible to
  • отчита́ться (otčitátʹsja)to be responsible to
  • дава́ть отчёт (davátʹ otčót)to be responsible to
  • дать отчёт (datʹ otčót)to be responsible to
Spanish responder a
  • responder ato be responsible to
Cite this entry
APA

account to. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/account%20to

MLA

“account to.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/account%20to. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “account to,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/account%20to.

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