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- [ri-spon-suh-bil-i-tee]
- /rɪˌspɒn səˈbɪl ɪ ti/
- /rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪləti/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ri-spon-suh-bil-i-tee]
- /rɪˌspɒn səˈbɪl ɪ ti/
Definitions of responsibility word
- noun plural responsibility the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management. 1
- noun plural responsibility an instance of being responsible: The responsibility for this mess is yours! 1
- noun plural responsibility a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority. 1
- noun plural responsibility a person or thing for which one is responsible: A child is a responsibility to its parents. 1
- noun plural responsibility reliability or dependability, especially in meeting debts or payments. 1
- idioms responsibility on one's own responsibility, on one's own initiative or authority: He changed the order on his own responsibility. 1
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Origin of responsibility
First appearance:
before 1780 One of the 45% newest English words
First recorded in 1780-90; respons(ible) + -ibility
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Responsibility
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
responsibility popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
responsibility usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for responsibility
noun responsibility
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- beeswax — Beeswax is wax that is made by bees and used especially for making candles and furniture polish.
verb responsibility
- amnestied — a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- defrock — If a priest is defrocked, he is forced to stop being a priest because of bad behaviour.
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- deselect — (of a constituency organization) to refuse to select (an existing MP) for re-election
Antonyms for responsibility
noun responsibility
- abolitionism — the principle or policy of abolition, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.
- capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
- conation — the element in psychological processes that tends towards activity or change and appears as desire, volition, and striving
Top questions with responsibility
- what is social responsibility?
- what is responsibility?
- what is corporate social responsibility?
- what does responsibility mean?
- which is not a responsibility of a subcommittee?
- what is the director's primary responsibility?
- what is moral responsibility?
- what is the primary responsibility of the secretary of defense?
- which of the following are the responsibility of public health?
- whose responsibility is it to control shrink?
- what is diffusion of responsibility?
- which responsibility centers generate both revenues and costs?
- which is an example of a citizen's responsibility?
- what is the main responsibility of the selective service system?
- who has overall responsibility for managing the on-scene incident?
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