Definitions for responsibility

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responsibility re·spon·si·bil·i·ty

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

IPA: /rɪˌspɒn səˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Responsibility is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1938 anagrams from letters in responsibility (beiiilnoprssty).

Definitions for responsibility

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 responsibility

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

Examples for responsibility

Into the Woods takes on the responsibility of saying, “Stuff happens after happily ever after.”

What responsibility was taken by cops when they kill unjustly?

A person can be expected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility.

And at $29.99, lighting up all sense of parental dignity and responsibility costs less than a carton of actual cigarettes.

Her responsibility was heavy on her; she made frequent rounds.

When one thinks of that, and the responsibility it entailed, it makes the hairs on the back of the neck move.

“He had sat on a hundred different Committees of responsibility,” writes King.

The responsibility for the breach is not under discussion here.

And we need a new sense of responsibility for a new century.

And when you marry you will, as you know, be rid of the responsibility.