Responsible Directly Extra Examples Held Parents Children Adjective

• mike is responsible for designing the entire project.
• even where parents no longer live together, they each continue to be responsible for their children.
• the management team is directly responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company.
• i'd like to talk to whoever is responsible here.

responsible

1. having the job or duty of doing something or taking care of somebody/something, so that you may be blamed if something goes wrong
• Mike is responsible for designing the entire project.
• Even where parents no longer live together, they each continue to be responsible for their children.
• The management team is directly responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company.
• I'd like to talk to whoever is responsible here.

Extra Examples

• All members of the Cabinet are collectively responsible for decisions taken.
• Both parents are equally responsible for raising the children.
• I am making you responsible for the cooking.
• I'm leaving you responsible for Juliet's protection.
• The board is ultimately responsible for policy decisions.
• The company could not indicate a person even nominally responsible for staff training.
• They're responsible for cleaning the engine.
• Thompson is directly responsible for all aspects of the business unit.
• We are all equally responsible for its success.
• if you're solely responsible for your family's welfare
• the person nominally responsible for staff training
2. being able to be blamed for something
• Who's responsible for this mess?
• He is mentally ill and cannot be held responsible for his actions.
• We will ensure that anyone found responsible for the accident is held accountable.
• Everything will be done to bring those responsible to justice.
• You mustn't feel responsible in any way.

Extra Examples

• Did he think her somehow responsible for Eddie's death?
• He was almost single-handedly responsible for the flourishing drug trade in the town.
• She was very distressed at the time and cannot be held responsible for her actions.
• I believe the press to be partly responsible for the recent rise in racist attacks.
• Who was responsible for the mistake?
• They held him responsible for the failure of the policy.
• The commander was personally responsible for ordering the attack on the village.
3. being the cause of something
• Cigarette smoking is responsible for about 90 per cent of deaths from lung cancer.
• He believes that man-made carbon dioxide is directly responsible for global warming.
• Hormonal changes may be partly responsible for these mood swings.

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• It's been one of the factors chiefly responsible for improved public health.
• No single pathogen seems wholly responsible for the disease.
• An investigation into the contamination of the water supply revealed that fracking was responsible.
4. that you can trust and rely on
• SYNONYM conscientious
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• The child should be accompanied by a parent or other responsible adult.
• We need to teach our children to act as responsible citizens.
• the importance of using medicines in a responsible manner
• Clare has a mature and responsible attitude to work.
• The firm specializes in socially responsible investments.
• They are not very responsible with money.

Extra Examples

• Resources must be allocated in a morally responsible way.
• In California you have to be 21 to be considered responsible enough to drink.
• their efforts to make the industry more responsible and responsive to concerns
• The organization needs to become more environmentally responsible.
5. needing somebody who can be trusted and relied on; involving important duties
• a responsible position
6. having to report to somebody/something with authority or in a higher position and explain to them what you have done
• The Council of Ministers is responsible to the Assembly.

Extra Examples

• a complex web of party bodies ultimately responsible to the Central Committee
• The prime minister is directly responsible to Parliament.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘answering to, corresponding’): from obsolete French responsible, from Latin respons- ‘answered, offered in return’, from the verb respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.