Definition of answerability in English:
answerability
noun ˌans(ə)rəˈbɪlɪtiˌɑːns(ə)rəˈbɪlɪtiˌansərəˈbilədē
mass nounResponsibility for explaining or justifying one's actions.
the answerability of governments to the citizenry
Example sentencesExamples
- If ministerial answerability cannot be adequately established, the question cannot be accepted and would ultimately be disallowed by the Speaker.
- The government is keen to find a way to separate the agencies that spend the money from the agencies that monitor the implementation to bring in greater answerability.
- Rather than concentrating on answerability to detailed government rules, more flexible mechanisms of accountability that encourage responsibility-taking are essential for governance.
- I remember a time when the Prime Minister was very strong on answerability by the Government to the Opposition.
- We are convinced that it would do nothing to enhance accountability and answerability to the public and runs the unacceptable risk of the far-right taking control of our police service.
- The security of the state and its subjects against the misuse of power by ministers and their officials lies directly in their hierarchical organization and their answerability.
- The majority proposal states that this is an imperfect solution, and it is, specifically because it damages the answerability of MPs that it sets out to improve.
- Beyond neighbourhoods, policing then needs what I would describe as answerability, at the level of the services centred in large towns.
- We call for transparency and answerability in all the organization's dealings with asylum seekers.
- The personal majesty of the monarch, as the final subjectivity of decision, is above all answerability for acts of government.
Synonyms
responsibility, liability