(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