responsibility
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
responsibility/rɪspɒnsəˈbɪləti/
▶noun (pl. responsibilities)
- 1 the state or fact of being responsible.
- 2 the opportunity or ability to act independently and take decisions without authorization.
■ (often responsibilities) a thing which one is required to do as part of a job, role, or legal obligation.
'responsibility' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolve
- accept
- acquit
- adopt
- adversarial
- affair
- age of discretion
- assume
- assumption
- attaché
- baton
- behove
- blame
- bounden
- buck
- burden
- carefree
- carry
- charge
- collegial
- colour sergeant
- commonhold
- communitarianism
- consequence
- cop-out
- curate
- cure
- custody
- delegate
- department
- devolve
- diminished responsibility
- disavow
- disburden
- discharge
- disclaimer
- down
- endorse
- entrust
- executive
- factor
- fall
- father
- fault
- fink
- first lieutenant
- fix
- funeral
- godparent
- hand
