answerable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: By making the police properly answerable to the communities they are meant to be serving ⦠.
• pay: Different scales of operation are covered, from the Treasurer doing it all, to significant paid finance staff answerable to the Board.
• elect: We don't ban organizations, but we do make our elected representatives answerable for their actions.

Modifies a noun

• question: It is usually necessary to go through a number of revisions to produce a clear answerable question.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: They would remain answerable to a supervisor or manager who would take overall responsibility for an area or policy or even the whole business.
• hold: The EU should be held answerable to the Court of Auditors, and not the other way around.
• make: In February 1999, the Cabinet Office announced that 111 executive NDPBs and 47 advisory bodies would be made answerable to the PCA.

Modifying Another Word

• ultimately: We are ultimately answerable to God who owns everything.
• directly: The Government Chief Whip is directly answerable to the Prime Minister.
• not: It is not answerable in its views to any masters.
• only: April-November 1933 - The Gestapo were only answerable to Goring.
• legally: Most students will be over the age of 18 and are not legally answerable to their parents.
• therefore: They are therefore answerable for all payments, including those made by Direct Debit.

Preposition: in

• term: Handpicked, no local base or affinity to which they are answerable in party terms.

Preposition: for

• consequence: The admiral would not be answerable for the consequences.
• payment: They are therefore answerable for all payments, including those made by Direct Debit.
• policy: He is answerable for the foreign policy of this country to the people's representatives.