Responsibility

Noun

 * 1) The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
 * Responsibility is a heavy burden.
 * 1) A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
 * Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!
 * The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world - Harry S. Truman
 * 1)  The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
 * 2)  The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).

Synonyms

 * responsibleness

Related terms

 * respond
 * response
 * responsible
 * responsibly

Adjectives for Responsibility
executive; unending; fearful; pecuniary; colossal; immense; sacred; dubious; painful; divided; individual; incidental; administrative; gravest; moral; serious; dreadful; direct; frightful; tremendous; numerous (pi) ; weighty; corresponding.

Verbs for Responsibility
absolve from—; awaken to—; assume— bear—; cast off—; charge with—; confer— deviate from—; delegate—; discard—; disregard—; dodge—; dread—; entail—; evade—; expand—; face—; impose—; incur—;  inherit—;   involve—;  lighten— meet—;  obviate—;  overburden with— realize—; relieve of—; saddle with— shield from—; shift—; shirk—; shoulder —; shrink from—; shy away from—; tackle—; undertake—; —devolves upon; —exacts; —presses; —reposes in; —rests on.

Thesaurus
accountability, accountableness, accounting for, action, agency, agentship, amenability, answerability, answerableness, application, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, attachment, attribution, auspices, authority, authorization, blame, bossing, brevet, burden, care, charge, chargeability, commission, commissioning, commitment, conduct, connection with, consignment, credit, culpability, cure, dedication to duty, delegated authority, delegation, dependability, deputation, derivation from, devolution, devolvement, devotion to duty, direction, driving, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, etiology, execution, executorship, exequatur, exercise, eye, factorship, faithworthiness, fault, full power, functioning, guilt, handling, honor, imputation, incorruptibility, incumbency, intendance, inviolability, job, jurisdiction, legation, liability, license, lieutenancy, management, mandate, manipulation, mission, obligation, occupation, office, onus, operancy, operation, oversight, palaetiology, performance, performing, placement, plenipotentiary power, power of attorney, power to act, practice, procuration, proxy, purview, reference to, regency, regentship, reliability, responsibleness, role, running, saddling, sense of duty, sense of obligation, stability, steering, superintendence, supervision, sureness, surveillance, task, trust, trustability, trusteeship, trustiness, trustworthiness, unfalseness, unperfidiousness, untreacherousness, vicarious authority, warrant, work, working, workings

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պատասխանատվություն (pataskhanatvutyun)
 * Basque: erantzukizun
 * Cebuano: responsibilidad
 * Chinese:
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 * Interlingua: responsabilitate
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (責任)
 * Kurdish: بارکێشان
 * Malayalam: ഉത്തരവാദിത്വം (uththaravaadithvam)
 * Norwegian:
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 * Romanian: responsabilitate
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, majukumu, daraka
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బాధ్యత (baadhyata)
 * Urdu:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պատասխանատվություն (pataskhanatvutyun)
 * Basque: erantzukizun
 * Cebuano: katungdanan
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hindi: (zimmedārī)
 * Interlingua: responsabilitate
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish: بارکێشان
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, majukumu,
 * Telugu: బాధ్యత (baadhyata)
 * Urdu: (ẕimmedārī)