{ "term": "responsible", "partOfSpeech": "adjective", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "having the job or duty of doing something or taking care of somebody/something, so that you may be blamed if something goes wrong", "sensetop": "responsible for doing somethingresponsible for somebody/something", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "Mike is responsible for designing the entire project.", "contextForm": "responsible for doing something" }, { "text": "Even where parents no longer live together, they each continue to be responsible for their children.", "contextForm": "responsible for somebody/something" }, { "text": "The management team is **directly responsible** for the day-to-day operations of the company." }, { "text": "I'd like to talk to whoever is responsible here." }, { "text": "All members of the Cabinet are collectively responsible for decisions taken." }, { "text": "Both parents are equally responsible for raising the children." }, { "text": "I am making you responsible for the cooking." }, { "text": "I'm leaving you responsible for Juliet's protection." }, { "text": "The board is ultimately responsible for policy decisions." }, { "text": "The company could not indicate a person even nominally responsible for staff training." }, { "text": "They're responsible for cleaning the engine." }, { "text": "Thompson is directly responsible for all aspects of the business unit." }, { "text": "We are all equally responsible for its success." }, { "text": "if you're solely responsible for your family's welfare" }, { "text": "the person nominally responsible for staff training" } ], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "become", "remain"], "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "fully"], "preposition": ["for"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "being able to be blamed for something", "sensetop": "responsible for something", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "Who's responsible for this mess?", "contextForm": "responsible for something" }, { "text": "He is mentally ill and cannot **be held responsible** for his actions." }, { "text": "We will ensure that anyone found responsible for the accident is held accountable." }, { "text": "Everything will be done to bring those responsible to justice." }, { "text": "You mustn't **feel responsible** in any way." }, { "text": "Did he think her somehow responsible for Eddie's death?" }, { "text": "He was almost single-handedly responsible for the flourishing drug trade in the town." }, { "text": "She was very distressed at the time and cannot be held responsible for her actions." }, { "text": "I believe the press to be partly responsible for the recent rise in racist attacks." }, { "text": "Who was responsible for the mistake?" }, { "text": "They held him responsible for the failure of the policy." }, { "text": "The commander was personally responsible for ordering the attack on the village." } ], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"], "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "fully"], "preposition": ["for"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "being the cause of something", "sensetop": "responsible for something", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "Cigarette smoking is responsible for about 90 per cent of deaths from lung cancer.", "contextForm": "responsible for something" }, { "text": "He believes that man-made carbon dioxide is **directly responsible** for global warming." }, { "text": "Hormonal changes may be **partly responsible** for these mood swings." }, { "text": "It's been one of the factors chiefly responsible for improved public health." }, { "text": "No single pathogen seems wholly responsible for the disease." }, { "text": "An investigation into the contamination of the water supply revealed that fracking was responsible." } ], "topics": ["Change, cause and effect"], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"], "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "fully"], "preposition": ["for"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "that you can trust and rely on", "sensetop": "responsible with something", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The child should be accompanied by a parent or other **responsible adult**." }, { "text": "We need to teach our children to act as **responsible citizens**." }, { "text": "the importance of using medicines in a **responsible manner**" }, { "text": "Clare has a mature and responsible attitude to work." }, { "text": "The firm specializes in **socially responsible** investments." }, { "text": "They are not very responsible with money.", "contextForm": "responsible with something" }, { "text": "Resources must be allocated in a morally responsible way." }, { "text": "In California you have to be 21 to be considered responsible enough to drink." }, { "text": "their efforts to make the industry more responsible and responsive to concerns" }, { "text": "The organization needs to become more environmentally responsible." } ], "synonyms": "conscientious", "topics": ["Personal qualities"], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"], "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"], "preposition": ["with"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "needing somebody who can be trusted and relied on; involving important duties", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "a **responsible position**" } ], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be", "become", "remain"], "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "fully"], "preposition": ["for"] } }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "having to report to somebody/something with authority or in a higher position and explain to them what you have done", "sensetop": "responsible to somebody/something", "examples": [ { "text": "The Council of Ministers is responsible to the Assembly." }, { "text": "a complex web of party bodies ultimately responsible to the Central Committee" }, { "text": "The prime minister is directly responsible to Parliament." } ], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be"], "adverb": ["directly", "ultimately"], "preposition": ["to"] } } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈspɒnsəbl/", "audio": "re/responsible/responsible__gb_2.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/rɪˈspɑːnsəbl/", "audio": "re/responsible/responsible__us_2.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘answering to, corresponding’): from obsolete French responsible, from Latin respons- ‘answered, offered in return’, from the verb respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’." }