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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary

U.S. Department of Agriculture

accountability

Subject Category: B Rural and Agricultural Sociology
Definition: Being held responsible and answerable for specified results or outcomes of an activity (over which one has authority).
Definition Source: ERIC Thesaurus
RDF/XML Format:: http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/297781.rdf
Persistent URI:: http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/297781
Broader Term: sociology
Related Term: employment; management systems; objectives; organization of work; planning; program evaluation
Spanish: rendición de cuentas
Term Number: 297781

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