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amenable
/əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/
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What does amenable mean?
adjective
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Willing to comply; easily led.
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Liable to the legal authority of (something).
- Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/
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In the treatment of those under his authority, the captain is amenable to the common law, like any other person.
He has a wrinkled almost hairless skin, but a very uncertain temper, and he is not very amenable to discipline.
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It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of an individual WITHOUT ITS CONSENT.
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others.
The females, when in a hurry to get out, do as much, if they find the tube at all amenable to the process.