answerable的意思|answerable的解释-里氏词典

answerable ['ɑ:nsәrәbl]

a. 有责任的, 可回答的

[法] 应负责任的, 可驳斥的, 可答覆的

I am answerable to the company for the use of this equipment.
我要向公司承担使用这一设备的责任。
The government answerable to the people.
政府应为他的人民负责。
He is answerable to the police commissioner for the conduct of the officer in his force.
他需要向警察局长就他警力中警官的行为进行解释。

answerable

[ adj ]

capable of being answered

<adj.all>

morally or legally responsible to a higher authority

<adj.all>

parents are answerable for their child's acts

Answerable \An"swer*a*ble\, a.
1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable
to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable;
responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal;
to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.

Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly
punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.

2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a
satisfactory answer.

The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable.
--Johnson.

3. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.

What wit and policy of man is answerable to their
discreet and orderly course? --Holland.

This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the
apostle to the Thessalonians. --Milton.

4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement
answerable to the preparation for it.

5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic]

Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he
had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost
bounds of Britain. --Milton.

It dispels an early anxiety that companies with a US subsidiary would be subject to US jurisdiction for that reason alone, or that the US subsidiary would be answerable for its foreign parent's conduct abroad.
The first step calls for a Nov. 3 referendum for voters to consider a constitutional change making the prime minister, named by the president, answerable to Algeria's parliament.
Though Japan has partially privatized the company, its officials are still answerable to the government.
"We need them (Texaco management) to be answerable in the event they screw things up again," Mr. Icahn said.
There is almost no question this would be his fate because the board of directors, answerable to the shareholders, would be compelled to ask why, for example, he was unaware of the company's poor financial condition.
The Legislature already has passed a bill establishing a quasi-public corporation, answerable to lawmakers and the governor, to operate the games.
Fried said such investigations should be conducted only by officials answerable to the president.
'It is our people, not our shareholders, to whom we are answerable,' Lewis says. Employee participation works in a variety of ways within JLP.
Those who hold power within it are answerable to nobody.
In relation to this and testing, of course you have to have proper appraisal systems.' Mr Blair said opted-out schools, which are currently answerable directly to Mr John Patten, education secretary, should be redirected to local education authorities.
'Advent is answerable to its investors, it manages those funds on behalf of its institutional investors, who in turn will expect a return on their investment,' the consultant says.
In the referendum, the citizens will be asked to approve a revision of the constitution that would make the future prime minister answerable to Parliament.

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