ACCOUNTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accountability mean? 

• ACCOUNTABILITY (noun)
  The noun ACCOUNTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. responsibility to someone or for some activity

  Familiarity information: ACCOUNTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOUNTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Responsibility to someone or for some activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accountability; answerability; answerableness

Hypernyms ("accountability" is a kind of...):

responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)

Derivation:

accountable (liable to account for one's actions)

 Context examples 

A sub-division of the drug accountability classification.

(Drug Accountability Record Subcategorization, NCI Thesaurus)

A character or string used to name, or characterize a drug accountability reference.

(Drug Accountability Reference Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification of the drug accountability.

(Drug Accountability Record Categorization, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication or description that a drug accountability test has occurred.

(Drug Accountability Performed, NCI Thesaurus)

A character or string that represents a drug accountability group.

(Drug Accountability Group Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

The numerical identifier of a drug accountability assessment result in standard units.

(Drug Accountability Numeric Result in Standard Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The standard unit of measure for drug accountability results.

(Drug Accountability Result Standard Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A character or string used to name or characterize the reference identifier for a returned treatment label with regards to a drug accountability assessment.

(Drug Accountability Returned Treatment Label Identifier Reference, NCI Thesaurus)

By signing this document the investigator confirms his participation and his role in the study and assumes responsibility and accountability associated with this role.

(Investigator Signature, NCI Thesaurus)

The Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource provides support to Cancer Center investigators involved in clinical research related to anticancer therapy with maintaining drug accountability records and investigational drug inventories according to FDA guidelines.

(Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)