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call to account

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Meaning

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

(idiomatic) To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.

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Power can be very addictive. And it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power. George W. Bush

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