answer to someone

answer to someone
answer to (someone) to be responsible to someone else.

If you own your own company, you do not have to answer to stockholders.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • someone's answer someone — (someone s) answer to (someone/something) someone or something that is just as good as a more famous person or thing in the place where it comes from. The Kennedy clan was America s answer to the royal families of Europe …   New idioms dictionary

  • someone's answer something — (someone s) answer to (someone/something) someone or something that is just as good as a more famous person or thing in the place where it comes from. The Kennedy clan was America s answer to the royal families of Europe …   New idioms dictionary

  • answer someone — (someone s) answer to (someone/something) someone or something that is just as good as a more famous person or thing in the place where it comes from. The Kennedy clan was America s answer to the royal families of Europe …   New idioms dictionary

  • someone's answer — (someone s) answer to (someone/something) someone or something that is just as good as a more famous person or thing in the place where it comes from. The Kennedy clan was America s answer to the royal families of Europe …   New idioms dictionary

  • answer something — (someone s) answer to (someone/something) someone or something that is just as good as a more famous person or thing in the place where it comes from. The Kennedy clan was America s answer to the royal families of Europe …   New idioms dictionary

  • answer — (someone s) answer to (someone/something) someone or something that is just as good as a more famous person or thing in the place where it comes from. The Kennedy clan was America s answer to the royal families of Europe …   New idioms dictionary

  • answer to — (someone) to be responsible to someone else. If you own your own company, you do not have to answer to stockholders …   New idioms dictionary

  • answer — 1 noun 1 REPLY (C, U) something you say when you reply to a question that someone has asked you: I asked Janine what she thought, but I m still waiting for her answer. | give (sb) an answer: You don t have to give them an answer straight away. |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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