responsible for
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2.7
- adjective
- /rɪˈspɑnsəbl fɔr/
:
responsable de
- As the project manager, you are responsible for ensuring that deadlines are met.
- held responsible for
- largely responsible for
- brain responsible for
You are going to be responsible for your passport.
- You are going to be responsible for your passport.
- They are the people that are responsible for the Pegasus virus.
- Do I really need to be responsible for your damned feelings too?
- There is no one who is responsible for your health except you.
- And so we get conditioned that we're responsible for how other people feel.
- They're not responsible for the content, blah, blah, blah.
- I want you to feel responsible for impacting lives.
- But Jerome Powell is responsible for nothing, right?
- breakthroughs that the Roman Empire was responsible for that we later built upon.
- It's Augustine particularly who's responsible for infant baptism.
- It was responsible for your headache going away.
- Have you in the past been responsible for sabotaging a relationship?
Examples
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I'm responsible for these men's lives.
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There is no one who is responsible for your health except you.
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I choose to be responsible for my experience.
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You are responsible for this, I believe.
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Jake was not responsible for that at all.
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You are going to be responsible for your passport.
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As Mayor, he understood that he is responsible for delivering results.
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Since August last year, the council has been responsible for just one week's worth of delays.
Academic text (2011) -
I want you to feel responsible for impacting lives.
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Do you comprehend what it is to be responsible for another human being?
Synonyms
251
4.6
Responsible for actions and must explain them to someone in charge
89
5.5
Legally responsible to pay for damage or loss
62
3.4
Responsible for causing a problem or mistake and deserving blame
26
7.5
Deserving blame for doing something wrong
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'responsible' (answerable, in charge) plus the preposition 'for' (indicating the target or scope), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'in charge of' or 'to be the cause of' without prior exposure. This adjective + preposition pattern is common across languages and follows standard argument structure, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Responsible for comes from the old idea of a person who must 'answer' for what happened. If you must 'answer' about something, you are responsible and the for links you to that thing, so responsible for means 'in charge of' or 'the cause of' something.