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Synonyms of responsibility in English:

responsibility


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See UK English definition of responsibility

See Spanish definition of responsabilidad

noun

1‘it was his responsibility to find witnesses’

SYNONYMS
duty, task, function, job, role, place, charge, business, onus, burden, liability, accountability, answerability, province
British informal pigeon

2‘the organization denied responsibility for the bomb attack at the airport’

SYNONYMS
blame, fault, guilt, culpability, blameworthiness, liability

3‘teenagers may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges’

SYNONYMS
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’

SYNONYMS
authority, control, power, leadership, management, influence
duty