Responsibility

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.

II. Responsibility ·noun That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power.

III. Responsibility ·noun The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

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