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Responsibility

The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

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Narrower term 13

Accountability 76% connected

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.

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Answerableness 76% connected

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

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burden of proof 76% connected

The responsibility for proving a claim.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Fault 76% connected

Defect; want; lack; default.

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Guardianship 76% connected

The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.

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Imperative 76% connected

Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

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Incumbency 76% connected

The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.

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Job 76% connected

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Keeping 76% connected

of Keep

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Prerequisite 76% connected

Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.

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Reliability 76% connected

The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

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Requirement 76% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Arena 76% connected

The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered w…

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Domain 76% connected

Dominion; empire; authority.

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Field 76% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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Orbit 76% connected

The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

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Sphere 76% connected

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

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Trustiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being trusty.

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Obligate 74% connected

To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

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Obligate 74% connected

To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

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Oblige 74% connected

To attach, as by a bond.

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Oblige 74% connected

To attach, as by a bond.

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Responsible 74% connected

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…

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Responsible 74% connected

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…

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Containing whole 3

Character 70% connected

A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Fiber 70% connected

Alt. of Fibre

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Fibre 70% connected

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

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Irresponsible 66% connected

Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.

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Irresponsible 66% connected

Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.

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Responsible 66% connected

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…

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Responsible 66% connected

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…

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Synonym 3

Duty 92% connected

That which is due; payment.

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Obligation 92% connected

The act of obligating.

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Province 92% connected

A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

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