responsibility 音标拼音: [risp
, ɑnsəb'ɪləti]
n .
U 责任,责任心;
C 职责,任务,负担
U 责任,责任心;
C 职责,任务,负担
responsibility 责任 回应性
responsibility n 1 :
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force ; "
we must instill a sense of duty in our children "; "
every right implies a responsibility ;
every opportunity ,
an obligation ;
every possession ,
a duty "-
John D .
Rockefeller Jr [
synonym : {
duty }, {
responsibility },
{
obligation }]
2 :
the proper sphere or extent of your activities ; "
it was his province to take care of himself " [
synonym : {
province },
{
responsibility }]
3 :
a form of trustworthiness ;
the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one '
s conduct ;
"
he holds a position of great responsibility " [
synonym :
{
responsibility }, {
responsibleness }] [
ant :
{
irresponsibility }, {
irresponsibleness }]
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1 .
The state of being responsible ,
accountable ,
or answerable ,
as for a trust ,
debt ,
or obligation .
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2 .
That for which anyone is responsible or accountable ;
as ,
the resonsibilities of power .
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3 .
Ability to answer in payment ;
means of paying .
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1913 Webster ]
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "
responsibility ":
accountability ,
accountableness ,
accounting for ,
action ,
agency ,
agentship ,
amenability ,
answerability ,
answerableness ,
application ,
arrogation ,
ascription ,
assignation ,
assignment ,
attachment ,
attribution ,
auspices ,
authority ,
authorization ,
blame ,
bossing ,
brevet ,
burden ,
care ,
charge ,
chargeability ,
commission ,
commissioning ,
commitment ,
conduct ,
connection with ,
consignment ,
credit ,
culpability ,
cure ,
dedication to duty ,
delegated authority ,
delegation ,
dependability ,
deputation ,
derivation from ,
devolution ,
devolvement ,
devotion to duty ,
direction ,
driving ,
duteousness ,
dutifulness ,
duty ,
embassy ,
empowerment ,
entrusting ,
entrustment ,
errand ,
etiology ,
execution ,
executorship ,
exequatur ,
exercise ,
eye ,
factorship ,
faithworthiness ,
fault ,
full power ,
functioning ,
guilt ,
handling ,
honor ,
imputation ,
incorruptibility ,
incumbency ,
intendance ,
inviolability ,
job ,
jurisdiction ,
legation ,
liability ,
license ,
lieutenancy ,
management ,
mandate ,
manipulation ,
mission ,
obligation ,
occupation ,
office ,
onus ,
operancy ,
operation ,
oversight ,
palaetiology ,
performance ,
performing ,
placement ,
plenipotentiary power ,
power of attorney ,
power to act ,
practice ,
procuration ,
proxy ,
purview ,
reference to ,
regency ,
regentship ,
reliability ,
responsibleness ,
role ,
running ,
saddling ,
sense of duty ,
sense of obligation ,
stability ,
steering ,
superintendence ,
supervision ,
sureness ,
surveillance ,
task ,
trust ,
trustability ,
trusteeship ,
trustiness ,
trustworthiness ,
unfalseness ,
unperfidiousness ,
untreacherousness ,
vicarious authority ,
warrant ,
work ,
working ,
workings RESPONSIBILITY .
The obligation to answer for an act done ,
and to repair any injury it may have caused .
2 .
This obligation arises without any contract ,
either on the part of the party bound to repair the injury ,
or of the party injured .
The law gives to the person who has suffered loss ,
a compensation in damages .
3 .
it is a general rule that no one is answerable for the acts of another unless he has ,
by some act of his own ,
concurred in them .
But when he has sanctioned those acts ,
either explicitly or by implication ,
he is responsible .
An innkeeper in general ,
civilly liable for the acts of his servants towards his guests ,
for anything done in their capacity of servants .
The owner of a carriage is also ,
civilly responsible to a passenger for any injury done by the driver as such .
See Driver .
4 .
There are cases where persons are made civilly responsible for the acts of others by particular laws and statutory provisions ,
when they have not done anything by which they might be considered as participating in such acts .
The responsibility which the hundred (
q .
v .)
in England formerly incurred to make good any robbery committed within its precincts ,
may be mentioned as an instance .
A somewhat similar liability is incurred now in some places in this country by a county ,
when property has been destroyed by a mob .
5 .
Penal responsibility is always personal ,
and no one can be punished for the commission of a crime but the person who has committed it or his accomplice .
Vide Damages ;
Injury ;
Loss .
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