Word Finder - responsibility

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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.

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Responsibility is a heavy burden.

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The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.

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A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.

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Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!

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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.

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The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.

I take my responsibility to you and our children seriously.

He also had a sense of responsibility about it.

Lori didn't want the responsibility of a baby.

In truth, Alex felt the full responsibility of being a role model.

Your responsibility cannot always be to your people.

Cade should accept the responsibility of his actions as well.

He was certainly a hard worker, but why did he consider it his responsibility to clear the fallen tree?

It was her responsibility now and having a job would give her the opportunity for a more modern approach to being a wife and mother.

I know you think he was high handed about it, but as your guardian, it was his responsibility to encourage you to get a good education.

What is man's responsibility to society, the conception of which results from the conception of freedom?

We have a responsibility to him.

Each of the three armies had its own commander-in-chief, but there was no supreme commander of all the forces, and the Emperor did not assume that responsibility himself.

I realized that no matter how much two people love each other, they need time to adjust to each other before they complicate their lives with the responsibility of children.

To be honest, thinking about the responsibility of making those decisions was overwhelming at times.

The responsibility of Death weighed heavily on his shoulders.

Carmen had accepted the full responsibility of all the animals, the children and the house.

Carmen assigned responsibility for that to herself because she didn't notice early enough that Destiny was sick.

If he had not taken upon himself the responsibility of Laura Bridgman's education and led her out of the pit of Acheron back to her human inheritance, should I be a sophomore at Radcliffe College to-day--who can say?

It's not your personal responsibility to make this right.

When war was actually begun, Hastings officially recorded his previous resolution to have resigned, in order to repudiate responsibility for measures which he had always opposed.

It is not Napoleon who prepares himself for the accomplishment of his role, so much as all those round him who prepare him to take on himself the whole responsibility for what is happening and has to happen.

I borrowed it on my responsibility so I feel obligated to get it back to them first.

He'd betrayed his own sense of responsibility, not to mention his promise to Tim.

It isn't your doing... or your responsibility to change it.

It was hardly fair to shift that responsibility solely to him.

When Mom & Dad died, she had been plunged into responsibility up to her neck.

You owe a responsibility to Mrs. Wassermann!

If you told him that such a one was coming, he did as if he thought that anything so grand would expect nothing of himself, but take all the responsibility on itself, and let him be forgotten still.

Kutuzov, without looking at Wolzogen, gave directions for the order to be written out which the former commander-in-chief, to avoid personal responsibility, very judiciously wished to receive.

It's my responsibility to monitor and deter them in the mortal world, Rhyn said.

He was taking on a lot of responsibility – maybe more than he could handle.

It was his responsibility and, Alex being the person he was, could do nothing but step up to it.

Alright, I accept responsibility for killing your horse, but it was an accident.

He must be overwhelmed by responsibility at this point and she had done nothing to help.

A man who simply wished to retain his lucrative post would today agree with Pfuel, tomorrow with his opponent, and the day after, merely to avoid responsibility or to please the Emperor, would declare that he had no opinion at all on the matter.

He had his job at the clinic as well as the responsibility of two properties.

The safari was as much his responsibility as hers.

The exact share of Gramont in this responsibility has been the subject of much controversy.

Self-reflection gradually reveals to us human capacity, human function, with, consequently, human responsibility.

At the close of the campaign of 1814 he shared with Joseph Bonaparte the responsibility for some of the actions which zealous Bonapartists have deemed injurious to the fortunes of the emperor.

Among these the provision of public libraries in the United States and United Kingdom (and similarly in other English-speaking countries) was especially prominent, and "Carnegie libraries" gradually sprang up on all sides, his method being to build and equip, but only on condition that the local authority provided site and maintenance, and thus to secure local interest and responsibility.

I'm trying to relieve him of some responsibility.

Next, were the light and heavy cruisers, which had the responsibility of silencing the larger gun emplacements, situated further inland.

The ultimate responsibility of the position is to drive sustainable digital molecular imaging instrumentation growth within the European continent.

On the other hand, maybe he was hiding from something besides the responsibility of the ranch.

I don't want her to be stuck with the responsibility of my child.

I can't believe Russ would shirk the responsibility of his own child.

He's taken on the responsibility of raising her child, if she chooses not to mate with another.

He pushed the door further but hesitated entering, as if remaining outside would absolve him of responsibility from what lay beyond.

Jackson fixed his eyes on the ceiling, bracing for the lecture about responsibility that was sure to come from Sarah.