Responsibility

Responsibility |rɪˌspɒnsɪˈbɪlɪti|

noun (pl.responsibilities) [ mass noun ]
1 the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone: women
bear children and take responsibility for childcare.

2 the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something: the group has claimed esponsibility for a string of murders.
• [ in sing. ] (responsibility to/towards) a moral obligation to behave correctly towards or in respect of:individuals have a responsibility to control their behaviour.

3 the opportunity or ability to act independently and take decisions without authorization: we expect
individuals to take on more responsibility.
• [ count noun ] (often responsibilities) a thing which one is required to do as part of a job, role, or
!legal obligation: he will take over the responsibilities of Overseas Director.

PHRASES
on one's own responsibility without authorization.
he postponed, on his own responsibility, a proposal for a broadcast by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Responsibility
noun
1 it was his responsibility to find witnesses: duty, task, function, job, role, place, charge, business, onus, burden, liability, accountability, answerability, province; Brit. informal pigeon.

2 the organization denied responsibility for the bomb attack at the airport: blame, fault, guilt, culpability, blameworthiness, liability.

3 teenagers may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges:
trustworthiness, level-headedness, rationality, sanity, reason, reasonableness, sense, common sense, stability,maturity, adultness, reliability, dependability,competence.

4 we train those staff who show an aptitude for managerial responsibility: authority, control, power, leadership,management, influence; duty.