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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force;
- Example: "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"
- Example: "every right implies a responsibility every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr;
[syn: duty, responsibility, obligation]
2. the proper sphere or extent of your activities;
- Example: "it was his province to take care of himself"
[syn: province, responsibility]
3. a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct;
- Example: "he holds a position of great responsibility"
[syn: responsibility, responsibleness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Responsibility \Re*spon`si*bil"i*ty\ (r?*sp?n`s?*b?l"?*t?), n.; pl. -ties (-t?z). [Cf. F. responsabilit['e].] 1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation. [1913 Webster] 2. That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power. [1913 Webster] 3. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying. [1913 Webster]The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. Alas, things ain't what we should see If Eve had let that apple be; And many a feller which had ought To set with monarchses of thought, Or play some rosy little game With battle-chaps on fields of fame, Is downed by his unlucky star And hollers: "Peanuts! -- here you are!" "The Sturdy Beggar"Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "responsibility": accountability, accountableness, accounting for, action, agency, agentship, amenability, answerability, answerableness, application, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, attachment, attribution, auspices, authority, authorization, blame, bossing, brevet, burden, care, charge, chargeability, commission, commissioning, commitment, conduct, connection with, consignment, credit, culpability, cure, dedication to duty, delegated authority, delegation, dependability, deputation, derivation from, devolution, devolvement, devotion to duty, direction, driving, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, embassy, empowerment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, etiology, execution, executorship, exequatur, exercise, eye, factorship, faithworthiness, fault, full power, functioning, guilt, handling, honor, imputation, incorruptibility, incumbency, intendance, inviolability, job, jurisdiction, legation, liability, license, lieutenancy, management, mandate, manipulation, mission, obligation, occupation, office, onus, operancy, operation, oversight, palaetiology, performance, performing, placement, plenipotentiary power, power of attorney, power to act, practice, procuration, proxy, purview, reference to, regency, regentship, reliability, responsibleness, role, running, saddling, sense of duty, sense of obligation, stability, steering, superintendence, supervision, sureness, surveillance, task, trust, trustability, trusteeship, trustiness, trustworthiness, unfalseness, unperfidiousness, untreacherousness, vicarious authority, warrant, work, working, workings
