Answer-for Definition

verb

To be held responsible for.

The mayor has a lot to answer for.
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To guarantee.

I will answer for his debt, if he can't pay on the day.
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Synonyms:
  • account
  • do at one's own risk
  • make amends for
  • atone for
  • pay-for
  • be liable for
  • accept the responsibility for
  • be accountable for
  • take the blame for
  • be responsible for
  • take the rap for
  • sponsor
  • take upon oneself

Answer-for Sentence Examples

  • They shall answer for it to all Europe."

  • The woman didn't answer for a moment of unsettling silence.

  • Katie didn't answer for a moment, pensive.  Gabe glanced back at her then slowed, as if sensing she was growing tired.

  • He was dressed in dark jeans and a snug, dark t-shirt that made him look too sexy for her to answer for a moment.

  • His strange title is given him in the chronicles on the strength of a story that he put two brothers of the name of Carvajal to death tyrannically, and was given a time, a plazo, by them in which to answer for his crime in the next world.

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