responsibility
♦♦ re|spon|sibil|ity /rɪsp'ɒnsɪb'ɪlɪti/ (responsibilities)
1 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N for n/-ing
If you have responsibility for something or someone, or if they are your responsibility, it is your job or duty to deal with them and to take decisions relating to them.
Each manager had responsibility for just under 600 properties...
2 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N for n
If you accept responsibility for something that has happened, you agree that you were to blame for it or you caused it.
No one admitted responsibility for the attacks...
3 [N-PLURAL] usu with supp
Your responsibilities are the duties that you have because of your job or position.
He handled his responsibilities as a counselor in an intelligent and caring fashion.
4 [N-UNCOUNT]
If someone is given responsibility, they are given the right or opportunity to make important decisions or to take action without having to get permission from anyone else.
She would have loved to have a better-paying job with more responsibility...
5 [N-SING] usu N to-inf
If you think that you have a responsibility to do something, you feel that you ought to do it because it is morally right to do it.
The court feels it has a responsibility to ensure that customers are not misled...
= duty
6 [N-SING] N to/towards n
If you think that you have a responsibility to someone, you feel that it is your duty to take action that will protect their interests.
She had decided that as a doctor she had a responsibility to her fellow creatures.di|min|ished re|spon|sibil|ity
[N-UNCOUNT]
In law, diminished responsibility is a defence which states that someone is not mentally well enough to be totally responsible for their crime.
1 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N for n/-ing
If you have responsibility for something or someone, or if they are your responsibility, it is your job or duty to deal with them and to take decisions relating to them.
Each manager had responsibility for just under 600 properties...
2 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N for n
If you accept responsibility for something that has happened, you agree that you were to blame for it or you caused it.
No one admitted responsibility for the attacks...
3 [N-PLURAL] usu with supp
Your responsibilities are the duties that you have because of your job or position.
He handled his responsibilities as a counselor in an intelligent and caring fashion.
4 [N-UNCOUNT]
If someone is given responsibility, they are given the right or opportunity to make important decisions or to take action without having to get permission from anyone else.
She would have loved to have a better-paying job with more responsibility...
5 [N-SING] usu N to-inf
If you think that you have a responsibility to do something, you feel that you ought to do it because it is morally right to do it.
The court feels it has a responsibility to ensure that customers are not misled...
= duty
6 [N-SING] N to/towards n
If you think that you have a responsibility to someone, you feel that it is your duty to take action that will protect their interests.
She had decided that as a doctor she had a responsibility to her fellow creatures.di|min|ished re|spon|sibil|ity
[N-UNCOUNT]
In law, diminished responsibility is a defence which states that someone is not mentally well enough to be totally responsible for their crime.