Responsible

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust.
  • adjective. Required to render account; answerable.
  • adjective. Involving important duties, the supervision of others, or the ability to make decisions with little supervision.
  • adjective. Being a source or cause.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior.
  • adjective. Able to be trusted or depended upon; trustworthy or reliable.
  • adjective. Based on or characterized by good judgment or sound thinking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Correspondent; answering; responsive.
  • Answerable, as for an act performed or for its consequences, or for a trust reposed or a debt; accountable; specifically, in ethics, in general, having such a mental or moral character as to be capable of knowing and observing the distinction of right from wrong in conduct, and therefore morally accountable for one's acts; in particular (with reference to a certain act), acting or having acted as a free agent, and with knowledge of the ethical character of the act or of its consequences.
  • Able to answer or respond to any reasonable claim or to what is expected; able to discharge an obligation, or having estate adequate to the payment of a debt.
  • Involving responsibility.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable.
  • adjective. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise.
  • adjective. Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
  • adjective. Capable of responding to any reasonable claim; able to answer reasonably for one's conduct and obligations; capable of rational conduct.
  • adjective. Involving responsibility; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
  • adjective. Being a primary cause or agent of some event or action; capable of being credited for something, or of being held liable for something.
  • adjective. Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. being the agent or cause
  • adjective. worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
  • adjective. having an acceptable credit rating
  • Word Usage
    "Formerly, if any one said, “I am not alone responsible for this,” he was understood to mean (what alone his words mean in correct English), that he is not the sole person responsible; but if he now used such an expression, the reader would be confused between that and two other meanings: that he is not _only responsible_ but something more; or that he is responsible _not only for this_ but for something besides."
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