responsibility | American Dictionary
responsibility noun
(DUTY)
responsibility noun
(BLAME)
(Definition of responsibility from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of responsibility
responsibility
In the above conversation, the nurse followed up her responsibilities agreed at the discharge planning meeting regarding discussing discharge issues with the patient.
Mounting photographs is the responsibility of the author(s).
In many developing countries, pollution control regulations are formulated at the national level, but their enforcement is the responsibility of local environmental protection bureaus.
Responsibility for the analysis and interpretation remains with the author.
Getting married confirmed a man’s entry into patriarchal society, conferring new social roles and responsibilities.
The strategy, of four inter-linked components, is based on division of roles and responsibilities among the stakeholders, and their participation in the process.
He had stressed the central question of co-operation and willingness to accept a common responsibility.
That experience taught me that life’s zero-sum nature imposes the hard responsibility of using limited time and energy wisely.
The student is taught never to assume that the mastery of matter is always the responsibility of others.
Both strands are brought together in looking beyond individual responsibility or culpability to the structural and lifecourse causes of the problems.
The revision of tasks was little discussed and clarified, and led to all kinds of problems in the everyday division of responsibilities.
In settings where responsibility for policy making is most clear, incumbent politicians are held accountable for macroeconomic performances.
My parents put a lot of responsibility on us children.
Other examples come from the municipalities that are assuming more responsibility for prevention, health promotion, and rehabilitation.
Their responsibilities include reviewing patient medication profiles, identifying and monitoring adverse drug reactions, dosage recommendations, and patient education.
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Collocations with responsibility
These are words often used in combination with responsibility.
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Acceptance of responsibility seems a useful condition for environmental protection contributions especially when accompanied by activist preferences for one’s nation’s current and future international role.
They have accepted responsibility for ensuring the security of the people of the region and have acknowledged the desperate need for humanitarian relief.
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