A task or role assigned to an individual or department that consists of what they are accountable for.
Responsibility may refer to:
- Collective responsibility
- Corporate social responsibility
- Duty
- Legal liability
- Legal obligation
- Legal responsibility (disambiguation)
- Media responsibility
- Moral responsibility, or personal responsibility
- Obligation
- Professional responsibility
- Responsibility assumption, a doctrine in existential psychotherapy
- Social responsibility
- Single responsibility principle
- Responsibility for the burning of Smyrna
- Responsibility for the Holocaust
- The Westminster system constitutional conventions of:
English
Etymology
From responsible + -ity. Although the components are of French origin, the compound appears to have been formed in English. Later-attested French responsabilité is modeled on the English word, and Italian responsabilità is in turn modeled on the French.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˌspɒn.səˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, enPR: rĭ-spŏn'sə-bĭlʹĭ-tē
- (US) IPA(key): /ɹɪˌspɑn.səˈbɪl.ə.ti/, [ɹɪˌspɑn.səˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
Noun
responsibility (countable and uncountable, plural responsibilities)
- The state of being