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responsibility

/ri-spon-suh-bil-i-tee/US // rɪˌspɒn səˈbɪl ɪ ti //UK // (rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ) //

责任,职责,责任感,责任心

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural re·spon·si·bil·i·ties.

    • : the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
    • : an instance of being responsible: The responsibility for this mess is yours!
    • : a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
    • : a person or thing for which one is responsible: A child is a responsibility to its parents.
    • : reliability or dependability, especially in meeting debts or payments.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounaccountability, blame
Forms: responsibilities
nounmaturity, trustworthiness
Forms: responsibilities

Examples

  • We knew we had a huge responsibility to help our customers communicate at a time when everything about communication had changed.

  • There’s also the added responsibility of dealing with stimulus-payment problems.

  • “We don’t delegate tasks to people, we delegate responsibility — everyone knows what they’re responsible for and can be autonomous in how, when and where they deliver that work,” he said.

  • Briefly, she thought about asking her parents to co-sign, but Walston said that would feel like another failure of her responsibility to take care of her daughter.

  • I was young and I didn’t have a lot of home responsibilities.

  • What responsibility was taken by cops when they kill unjustly?

  • For anything to work, including law itself, there must be ample room for individual responsibility.

  • Law has been rebuilt in the last 50 years to be an instrument of control, not a framework for human responsibility.

  • Nothing will work sensibly, or fairly, until human responsibility is restored as the activating force for all public choices.

  • After all, how could someone struggling to take care of himself be expected to take responsibility for others?

  • It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

  • Let us go back to the capital, and the responsibility shall fall on my shoulders alone.'

  • He gave orders, on his own responsibility, that Black Sheep was not to go to school or open a book until Mamma came home.

  • It may be, of course, that the responsibility was thrown on the lady in order to restrain the hand of the incensed king.

  • On him, and on him alone, falls the crushing onus of responsibility: to be a Corps Commander is child's play in that comparison.