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answer for
verb as in be accountable for
Example Sentences
“I was in a fantasy world. He had an answer for everything,” Ruvalcaba, 66, said in an interview with The Times.
According to the IOPC, Northamptonshire Police had initially decided Det Con Tredwell had a case to answer for gross misconduct, but decided not to pursue it as he had been medically retired.
Paying bail enabled someone to receive their punishment up front rather than be detained to answer for it, and then, if they were found not guilty, they could have the money back.
He then praised Kennedy for “coming up with the answers for autism,” backing the secretary’s long-standing view that just making stuff up is a superior approach to medicine than following the science.
The Chiefs, meanwhile, made it to the Super Bowl but had no answers for the Philadelphia Eagles in a lopsided loss.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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