Usually means: Provide response or solution to.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. answer to, answer to (someone), answer to (something): Merriam-Webster
  2. answer to, answer to: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. answer to: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. answer to: Wiktionary
  5. answer to: Dictionary.com
  6. answer to: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. answer to: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. answer to: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. answer to: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (answer to)

verb:  To be accountable or responsible to; to account to; to report to.
verb:  To justify oneself to (someone). (usually with have to)
verb:  To respond to (a name); to treat as one's own name.

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