Definition of responsibility

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Responsibility (n.) Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.

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Deviation :: Deviation (n.) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility..
Interest :: Interest (n.) Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks..
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty..
Bureaucracy :: Bureaucracy (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system..
Sinecure :: Sinecure (n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service..
Associate :: Associate (a.) Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge..
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
Incur :: Incur (v. t.) To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc..
Responsibility :: Responsibility (n.) That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power..
Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility..
Release :: Release (n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance..
Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment..
Lookout :: Lookout (n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
Prerogative :: Prerogative (n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise..
Incurrence :: Incurrence (n.) The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc..
Responsibility :: Responsibility (n.) The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation..
Shoulder :: Shoulder (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt..
Insanity :: Insanity (n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility..
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc..
Sign :: Sign (v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation..
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