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What does responsibility mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word responsibility? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
  2. A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
  3. (military) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
  4. (military) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
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By abdicating its political responsibility the central cabinet seeks the Supreme Court's intervention to resolve the dispute.
The problems arose because people were abdicating responsibility and were not getting the right person to do the job.
What is startling about this statement is the degree to which this mayor is simply abdicating responsibility for governing the city.
He cannot envisage himself abdicating his moral responsibility in the matter.
Catering to such people might even be considered an abdication of responsibility for a program director bent on public service.
But the bottom line as far as she is concerned is that builders and developers have been abdicating any responsibility in this area.

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