hold someone to account
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
To require someone to justify and answer for their performance or commitments.
A manager who never holds anyone to account trains the whole team to miss deadlines.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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