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