Responsibility

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re·spon·si·bil·i·ty

Pronunciation [ri-spon-suh-bil-i-tee]

plural -ties

-noun

1. the state or fact of being responsible.
2. an instance of being responsible: The responsibility for this mess is yours!
3. a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
4. a person or thing for which one is responsible: A child is a responsibility to its parents.
5. reliability or dependability, esp. in meeting debts or payments.

-Idiom

6. on one's own responsibility, on one's own initiative or authority: He changed the order on his own responsibility.

Taken from Dictionary.com.