Collocations for "responsibility"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "responsibility" in context.
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responsibility
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [huge, big, major, shared, government] responsibility
- [financial, professional, family, legal] responsibilities
- take [full, complete, partial, overall] responsibility (for the)
- took responsibility for the [error, mistake, failure]
- take your responsibilities seriously
- [took on, assumed, accepted] the responsibility
- denies all responsibility (for)
- want (to have) more responsibilities (around the house)
- will give you more responsibility (if, when)
- [bookings, marketing, logistics, customer care] is her responsibility
- the responsibility of [ensuring, improving, guaranteeing, presenting]
- the responsibilities of being a [parent, teacher, president]
- this [establishment, bar] assumes no responsibility for (damages)
- whose responsibility was it to [finish, remember, bring it]?
- it is your responsibility to [ensure, make sure, check] (that)
- [agreed, accepted] under her own responsibility
- [assign, apportion, delegate] responsibilities
'responsibility' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accept
- acceptance
- accountability
- acknowledge
- assume
- authority
- bear
- burden
- buyer
- claim
- counselor
- deny
- diminish
- disclaimer
- duty
- employer
- equal
- exempt
- fail
- foster
- full
- godfather
- government
- heavy
- inference
- keen
- laden
- largely
- legal
- main
- manslaughter
- nanny
- new
- no
- obligation
- operational
- out
- overriding
- overwhelmed
- overwhelming
- parent
- personal
- plaintiff
- position
- publisher
- ranger
- recognize
- saddle
- seller
- share