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Noun
▲
A thing which one is required to do as part of a job, role, or legal obligation
duty
burden
charge
job
function
role
task
business
imperative
obligation
onus
answerability
commitment
devoir
incumbency
need
office
place
care
albatross
boundness
constraint
contract
encumbrance
engagement
importance
obligatoriness
pledge
assignment
work
more ❯
“We have a social responsibility and the authority has legal responsibilities.”
Noun
▲
The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something
accountability
blame
fault
culpability
guilt
liability
onus
blameworthiness
burden
answerability
rap
obligation
guiltiness
charge
culpableness
wrongdoing
debt
incrimination
arrears
arrearage
duty
legal responsibility
score
accountableness
indebtedness
sin
condemnation
buck
imperative
censure
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“In fact, no one has claimed responsibility for any of the recent terrorist attacks in the area.”
Noun
▲
The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone
control
authority
duty
management
power
charge
command
governance
leadership
reign
reins
supervision
influence
mana
sway
jurisdiction
commitment
privilege
voice
hand
connection
weight
prestige
say-so
leverage
clout
agency
say
pull
ascendancy
more ❯
“However, paraprofessionals assumed primary responsibility for the personal care of students and for playground supervision.”
Noun
▲
Worthy of one's trust or confidence
dependability
liability
reliability
stability
trustworthiness
rationality
maturity
reasonableness
accountability
blame
dependableness
reason
reliableness
sanity
sense
trustability
adultness
competence
conscientiousness
sensibleness
soberness
solidness
sureness
ability
capableness
capacity
common sense
competency
efficiency
faithfulness
firmness
honesty
levelheadedness
loyalty
rap
solidity
steadfastness
trustiness
uprightness
level-headedness
more ❯
“We should stick with hiring employees with a high degree of responsibility.”
Noun
▲
A specific task or assignment
task
assignment
brief
goal
job
mission
objective
role
undertaking
commission
project
duty
charge
function
business
work
concern
obligation
post
engagement
occupation
errand
enterprise
office
exercise
affair
position
operation
province
burden
more ❯
“Management of this division will be your responsibility for the next two weeks.”
Noun
▲
(someone or something) The state of supervising, protecting, and maintaining the health and welfare of
care
supervision
custody
charge
protection
keeping
keep
control
management
ministration
guidance
superintendence
tutelage
aegis
guardianship
wardship
trusteeship
custodianship
safekeeping
trust
ward
auspices
parenting
mothering
fathering
looking after
provision of care
safe keeping
support
backing
more ❯
Noun
▲
An area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility
province
area
business
department
field
line
sphere
charge
concern
domain
realm
discipline
duty
orbit
bailiwick
territory
part
post
preserve
role
world
affair
arena
authority
barony
capacity
circle
demesne
element
employment
fief
fiefdom
firmament
forte
front
function
game
jurisdiction
kingdom
pigeon
precinct
specialityUK
specialtyUS
terrain
turf
walk
worry
area of activity
area of interest
area of knowledge
area of responsibility
calling
champaign
county
office
prefecture
pursuit
section
shire
tract
work
line of business
line of country
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Noun
▲
(count noun) A feeling of worry or anxiety
care
worry
anxiety
trouble
disquiet
disquietude
bother
unease
upset
distress
concern
sorrow
anguish
grief
sadness
affliction
woe
hardship
tribulation
suffering
pain
torment
misery
angst
stress
agita
agitation
anxiousness
apprehension
apprehensiveness
burden
concernment
fear
nervosity
nervousness
perplexity
pressure
sweat
uneasiness
vexation
strain
perturbation
burdens
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Noun
▲
(usually used in plural form "pains") Effort expended towards a particular objective
pain
effort
trouble
bother
endeavourUK
endeavorUS
determination
labourUK
strength
application
discipline
energy
exertion
charge
control
force
power
strain
assiduousness
industry
struggle
elbow grease
expenditure
laborUS
sweat
while
work
toil
drudgery
stress
more ❯
Noun
▲
A situation enforcing a certain course of action
necessity
need
obligation
urgency
call
crisis
duty
exigency
gravity
commitment
emergency
desperation
imperativeness
force of circumstance
pressure of circumstance
force majeure
pressure
compulsion
coercion
conscience
importance
seriousness
hurry
extremity
weightiness
weight
cruciality
haste
momentousness
criticality
imminence
stress
incitement
rush
top priority
importunity
instancy
Noun
▲
The condition of being incorruptible
incorruptibility
integrity
uprightness
honesty
honourUK
conscientiousness
correctness
high-mindedness
justness
probity
rectitude
righteousness
right-mindedness
scrupulousness
trustworthiness
virtue
bluntness
candourUK
candorUS
confidence
decency
equity
evenhandedness
fairness
faithfulness
fidelity
frankness
genuineness
goodness
honorUS
honorableness
impeccability
loyalty
morality
nobility
openness
outspokenness
plainness
principle
reputability
respectability
right
self-respect
sincerity
soundness
straightforwardness
straightness
trustiness
upstandingness
veracity
more ❯
Noun
▲
Responsibility to prove something
burden of proof
onus
onus probandi
Noun
▲
The act of perpetrating
perpetration
accomplishment
achievement
commission
discharge
enactment
execution
fulfillmentUS
fulfilmentUK
implementation
performance
prosecution
pursuance
action
transaction
effecting
completion
carrying out
realizationUS
effectuation
fulfilling
finishing
realisationUK
carrying through
performing
doing
undertaking
enforcement
attainment
consummation
more ❯
Noun
▲
Emotional or personal association with someone
involvement
attachment
association
connection
intimacy
relationship
affinity
embroilment
entanglement
friendship
affair
bond
closeness
engagement
familiarity
fraternisationUK
fraternizationUS
kinship
relation
relations
ties
affiliation
link
rapport
personal association
union
tie
correlation
alliance
partnership
more ❯
Noun
▲
Blame; criticism
rap
admonishment
admonition
censure
chiding
flak
knock
pan
punishment
rebuke
reprimand
reproach
reproof
sentence
swipe
scolding
castigation
lecture
reproval
criticism
upbraiding
carpeting
dressing-down
roasting
telling-off
rollicking
tongue-lashing
wigging
lambasting
ticking off
more ❯
Noun
▲
The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offence or revealing confidential information
discretion
care
caution
prudence
tact
circumspection
consideration
diplomacy
wariness
carefulness
sense
chariness
judiciousness
discrimination
guardedness
judgmentUS
tactfulness
acumen
delicacy
discernment
discreetness
gumption
judgementUK
levelheadedness
nous
policy
sensibleness
sensitivity
subtlety
wisdom
wit
common sense
heedfulness
sagacity
attention
calculation
canniness
concern
considerateness
deliberation
foresight
forethought
good sense
heed
horse sense
maturity
moderation
observation
perspicacity
precaution
providence
shrewdness
solicitude
thoughtfulness
vigilance
warning
watchfulness
kid gloves
presence of mind
more ❯
Noun
▲
A sum of money that is owed or due
debt
arrears
score
bill
account
debit
debts
dues
liability
obligation
tally
arrearage
check
commitment
due
duty
indebtedness
liabilities
tab
charges
debits
albatross
baggage
balance
bite
capital
chit
claim
credit
cuff
damage
debenture
deficit
encumbrance
financial obligation
invoice
IOU
manifest
mortgage
note
outstanding payment
outstandings
receipt
reckoning
voucher
money owing
balance due
price tag
promissory note
red ink
amount due
amount outstanding
amount overdue
sum unpaid
outstanding payments
deficiency
back payment
unpaid bill
Noun
▲
The cost incurred in or required for something
expense
charge
cost
outlay
payment
toll
fee
price
tariff
amount
expenditure
figure
levy
output
rate
spending
consumption
damage
disbursement
assessment
bite
budget
debit
debt
decrement
deprivation
detriment
disadvantage
duty
forfeit
forfeiture
insurance
investment
liability
loan
mortgage
obligation
outdo
outflow
payroll
premium
risk
sum
surcharge
upkeep
use
value
worth
bottom line
price tag
out of pocket
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state, fact, or period of being mature
maturity
adulthood
majority
manhood
matureness
puberty
adultness
coming-of-age
completion
fullness
pubescence
womanhood
maturation
perfection
ripeness
ability
advancement
capability
civilisationUK
civilizationUS
cultivation
development
fitness
maturescence
mentality
postpubescence
prime
readiness
reliability
coming of age
full growth
due date
middle age
old age
full bloom
prime of life
more ❯
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