Dictionary Definition
responsibility
Noun
1 the social force that binds you to your
obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force; "we
must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies
a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every
possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr [syn: duty, obligation]
2 the proper sphere or extent of your activities;
"it was his province to take care of himself" [syn: province]
3 a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being
answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's
conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility" [syn:
responsibleness]
[ant: irresponsibility,
irresponsibility]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /rɪˌspɑnsəˈbɪlɪti/
- /rI%spAns@"bIlIti/
Noun
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- Responsibility is a heavy burden.
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is
responsible or 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
- Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!
- 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).
- 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).
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Translations
the state of being responsible
- Arabic:
- Armenian: պատասխանատվություն (pataskhanatvutyun)
- Cebuano: responsibilidad
- Chinese: 責任, 责任 (zérèn)
- Czech: odpovědnost
- Danish: ansvar
- Dutch: verantwoordelijkheid
- Esperanto: respondeco
- Finnish: vastuu
- French: responsabilité
- German: Verantwortung , Verantwortlichkeit
- Hungarian: felelősség
- Interlingua: responsabilitate
- Italian: responsabilità
- Japanese: 責任 (せきにん, sekinin)
- Korean: 책임 (chaegim)
- Malayalam: ഉത്തരവാദിത്വം (uththaravaadithvam)
- Portuguese: responsabilidade
- Russian: ответственность (otvétstvennost’)
- Spanish: responsabilidad
- Swedish: ansvar
a duty, obligation or liability for which
someone is responsible
- Arabic: (mas’ūlíyya)
- Armenian: պատասխանատվություն (pataskhanatvutyun)
- Cebuano: katungdanan
- Danish: ansvar
- Dutch: verantwoordelijkheid
- Esperanto: respondeco
- French: responsabilité
- German: Verantwortung
- Interlingua: responsabilitate
- Italian: responsabilità
- Japanese: 責任 (せきにん, sekinin)
- Portuguese: responsabilidade
- Spanish: responsabilidad
See also
References
Extensive Definition
Responsibility may refer to:
- Responsibility assumption, in spirituality and personal growth
- Cabinet collective responsibility, a constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System
- Collective responsibility (doctrine), a doctrine that individuals in society are/can be held responsible for the actions of the society as a whole
- Corporate social responsibility
- Corporate responsibility
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Media responsibility
- Ministerial responsibility
- Moral responsibility
- Professional responsibility
- Responsibility (Unification Church theology)
- Single responsibility principle
- Social responsibility
- Statue of Responsibility
- Responsibility (song), a song by Christian punk band MxPx
See also
responsibility in German: Verantwortung
responsibility in Spanish: Responsabilidad
responsibility in French: Responsabilité
responsibility in Ido: Responsiveso
responsibility in Italian: Responsabilità
responsibility in Portuguese:
Responsabilidade
responsibility in Swedish: Ansvar
responsibility in Turkish:
Sorumluluk
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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