Usually means: Obligation to act or decide.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word responsibility:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. responsibility: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. responsibility: Merriam-Webster
  3. responsibility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. responsibility: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. responsibility: Collins English Dictionary
  6. responsibility: Vocabulary.com
  7. Responsibility, responsibility: Wordnik
  8. responsibility: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. responsibility: Wiktionary
  10. responsibility: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. responsibility: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. responsibility: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Responsibility, responsibility: Dictionary.com
  14. responsibility: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Responsibility (disambiguation), Responsibility (song), Responsibility: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Responsibility: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. responsibility: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. responsibility: Rhymezone
  19. Responsibility: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. responsibility: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. responsibility: FreeDictionary.org
  22. responsibility: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. responsibility: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. responsibility: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Responsibility: Eastern Philosophy

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. responsibility: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. responsibility: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. responsibility: Legal dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Responsibility: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. responsibility: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. responsibility: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Responsibility: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. [from 18th c.]
▸ noun:  The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
▸ noun:  A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
▸ noun:  The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion.
▸ noun:  The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to someone’s possession or supervision.

Similar:
responsibleness, duty, obligation, province, responsiblity, responsability, burden, accountability, culpability, onus, more...

Opposite:
irresponsibility, negligence, carelessness, disregard, unaccountability

Types:
moral, legal, social, political, professional, parental, civic, environmental, financial, personal, more...

Phrases:
social responsibility, take responsibility, personal responsibility, Moral responsibility, accept responsibility, more...

Adjectives:
personal, social, full, moral, primary, own, individual, more, greater, collective, sole

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Similar:
responsibleness, duty, obligation, province, responsiblity, responsability, burden, accountability, culpability, onus, more...

Opposite:
irresponsibility, negligence, carelessness, disregard, unaccountability

Types:
moral, legal, social, political, professional, parental, civic, environmental, financial, personal, more...

Phrases:
social responsibility, take responsibility, personal responsibility, Moral responsibility, accept responsibility, Professional responsibility, Collective responsibility, shared responsibility, more...

Adjectives:
personal, social, full, moral, primary, own, individual, more, greater, collective, sole

Colors:
    blue,     teal,     gray,     green,     olive, more...



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