RESPONSIBILITY


Meaning of RESPONSIBILITY in English

(responsibilities)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you have ~ for something or someone, or if they are your ~, it is your job or duty to deal with them and to take decisions relating to them.

Each manager had ~ for just under 600 properties...

N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n/-ing

2.

If you accept ~ for something that has happened, you agree that you were to blame for it or you caused it.

No one admitted ~ for the attacks...

N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n

3.

Your responsibilities are the duties that you have because of your job or position.

He handled his responsibilities as a counselor in an intelligent and caring fashion.

N-PLURAL: usu with supp

4.

If someone is given ~, they are given the right or opportunity to make important decisions or to take action without having to get permission from anyone else.

She would have loved to have a better-paying job with more ~...

N-UNCOUNT

5.

If you think that you have a ~ to do something, you feel that you ought to do it because it is morally right to do it.

The court feels it has a ~ to ensure that customers are not misled...

= duty

N-SING: usu N to-inf

6.

If you think that you have a ~ to someone, you feel that it is your duty to take action that will protect their interests.

She had decided that as a doctor she had a ~ to her fellow creatures.

N-SING: N to/towards n

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