'Responsibility' definitions:
Definition of 'responsibility'
(from WordNet)
noun
The social force that binds you to 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, responsibility, obligation]
noun
The proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself" [syn: province, responsibility]
noun
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: responsibility, responsibleness] [ant: irresponsibility, irresponsibleness]
Definition of 'Responsibility'
From: GCIDE
- Responsibility \Re*spon`si*bil"i*ty\ (r?*sp?n`s?*b?l"?*t?), n.; pl. -ties (-t?z). [Cf. F. responsabilit['e].]
- 1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'responsibility'
From: Moby 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
Words containing 'Responsibility'
- Responsal,
- Response,
- Responsible,
- Responsibleness,
- Responsibly,
- Responsion,
- Responsive,
- Responsively,
- Responsiveness,
- responsible for,
- Consultary response,
- anamnestic response,
- civic responsibility,
- conditional response,
- conditioned response,
- electrodermal response,
- frequency response,
- immune response,
- immunologic response,
- learned response,
- psychogalvanic response,
- reflex response,
- response time,
- sense of responsibility,
- startle response,
- conditioned avoidance response,
- conditioned emotional response,
- electrical skin response,
- galvanic skin response,
- humoral immune response,
- frequency-response characteristic,
- frequency-response curve,
- cell-mediated immune response