call to account

English

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Verb

call to account (third-person singular simple present calls to account, present participle calling to account, simple past and past participle called to account)

  1. (idiomatic) To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.
    • 2022 January 26, Paul Clifton, “"Intolerable" service cuts under emergency COVID timetables”, in RAIL, number 949, page 8:
      TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: "This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account."

Translations
hold answerable — see hold to account
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