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# responsible

«responsible» in Mova's school dictionary: **responsible for something, it is your job or duty to look…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (responsible, more responsible, most responsible)

### meaning for a pupil

1) If you are responsible for something, it is your job or duty to look after it or do it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#m1)

2) If you are responsible for something that happened, you caused it and can be blamed or praised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#m2)

3) A responsible person is sensible and can be trusted to do the right thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used at school: class jobs ("You are responsible for feeding the fish"), being a responsible pupil, responsible internet use. In stories: who is responsible for the mess? In safety: an adult responsible for you. Phrase: "take responsibility".

### examples

- I am responsible for watering the class plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x1)
- Who is responsible for this mess? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x2)
- She is very responsible and always does her homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x3)
- A responsible adult must come on the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x4)
- Be responsible online and never share your password. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x5)
- The storm was responsible for the power cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x6)
- Owning a pet means being responsible for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x7)
- “No, no,” Mr. Darling always said, “I am responsible for it all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/#x8)

### note

Followed by "for": responsible for something. Noun: responsibility (plural responsibilities). Opposite: irresponsible. Spelling: -ible, not -able.

### In the corpora

- [People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/17/)
- [You are responsible for the words you use, even if a bot suggested them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/15/)
- [A company is responsible for what its chatbot tells customers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/11/)
- [The passive can also hide who is responsible, as in "Mistakes were made."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/11/)
- [A dare does not make a rude act acceptable; the person who does it is still responsible.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «responsible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/responsible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.