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answer for

verb

  1. to be liable or responsible for (a person's actions, behaviour, etc)
  2. to vouch for or speak on behalf of (a person)
  3. to suffer or atone for (one's wrongdoing)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Pressed for how he will improve in qualifying, he said: "I really don't know. I really don't have a lot of answers for you guys. Just wasn't quick today."

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“If SCE failed to properly ground these idle lines that have been sitting there for fifty years, that was a disaster waiting to happen — and they will have to answer for that to a jury.”

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" I realised was that there was more we needed to understand, that I didn't have answers for what had happened and so many other families didn't either," she says.

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At every turn, until Monday, USC found an answer for her absence, scratching and clawing their way through two tournament rounds.

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But also found the officers had no case to answer for misconduct, because they were being judged by the professional standards of the 1980s.

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