Commitment vs. Accountability: What's the Difference?

Commitment and Accountability Definitions
Commitment
The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.
Accountability
Expected or required to account for one's actions; answerable.
Commitment
Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.
Accountability
Capable of being explained
An accountable phenomenon.
Commitment
A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.
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Accountability
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
Commitment
A pledge or obligation, as to follow a certain course of action
A public official's commitment to uphold the Constitution.
Accountability
An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
Commitment
Something pledged, especially an engagement by contract involving financial obligation.
Accountability
Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
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Commitment
The state of being emotionally or intellectually devoted, as to a belief, a course of action, or another person
A profound commitment to the family.
Accountability
(military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.
Commitment
The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
Accountability
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.
Commitment
The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
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Accountability
Responsibility to someone or for some activity
Commitment
Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
Commitment
Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
Commitment
Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
Commitment
Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
Commitment
The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
Commitment
Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
Commitment
State of being pledged or engaged.
Commitment
The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
Commitment
The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged.
Commitment
A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; - more frequently termed a mittimus.
Commitment
The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
Commitment
A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
Commitment
The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
Commitment
The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose;
A man of energy and commitment
Commitment
The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action;
His long commitment to public service
They felt no loyalty to a losing team
Commitment
An engagement by contract involving financial obligation;
His business commitments took him to London
Commitment
A message that makes a pledge
Commitment
The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)