responsibilities
- 1Plural of responsibility.
The manager divided the team's responsibilities among four people.
Caring for an aging parent brought a wave of unexpected responsibilities.
Note
The plural pulls the word toward its countable meanings: duties, obligations and assigned tasks that can be listed and shared out one by one. The abstract state of being accountable usually stays singular, as in taking responsibility for an error, while her responsibilities include payroll counts separate jobs. The spelling follows the usual -ity pattern, with final y becoming -ies.
responsibilities is a form of responsibility
responsibility, noun: A duty or task that you are in charge of and must answer for, such as a job to finish or money or people to look after. Full entry
- Forms
- responsibilityresponsibilities plural
- Spelling
- responsibility → responsibilities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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