Definitions for responsibilities

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responsibilities re·spon·si·bil·i·ty

Spelling: [ri-spon-suh-bil-i-tee]

IPA: /rɪˌspɒn səˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Responsibilities is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 2055 anagrams from letters in responsibilities (beeiiiilnoprssst).

Definitions for responsibilities

noun

1. the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
2. an instance of being responsible:
3. a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible:
4. a person or thing for which one is responsible:
5. reliability or dependability, especially in meeting debts or payments.

Idioms

1. on one's own responsibility, on one's own initiative or authority:

Origin of responsibilities

First recorded in 1780-90; respons(ible) + -ibility

Examples for responsibilities

The responsibilities of raising children often seem very daunting.

That made the jurors stop and think, ‘if Judge Cox is taking this stand, we’d better meet our responsibilities as well.

It is an open question what responsibilities artists bear when turning the public mind to these matters.

I don't see why I can't have a few pleasures along with my responsibilities.

And the people themselves can do it, abdicating the virtues and responsibilities of citizenship.

The person whom he hoped would champion his work, his last assistant and lover, had other priorities and responsibilities.

If they'd thought as much about their responsibilities as they thought about their rights, they'd still have their rights!

From a just view of his responsibilities he had gone on to a morbid one.

Martin, who already had been doing a man's work, now assumed a man's responsibilities.

The responsibilities of the position I feel, but accept them without fear.