responsibly

responsible | American Dictionary

responsible
adjective
us/rɪˈspɑn·sə·bəl/

responsibleadjective (DUTY)

having the duty of taking care of something:
The government’s Energy Regulatory Board is responsible for nuclear safety.
A responsible job/position is an important one involving control and authority over something.

responsibleadjective (BLAME)

being the cause of a particular action or situation, esp. a harmful or unpleasant one:
We are not responsible for things getting lost in the mail.

responsibleadjective (GOOD JUDGMENT)

having good judgment and the ability to act correctly and make decisions on your own:
We want to be responsible citizens.

responsible | Business English

responsible
adjective
uk /rɪˈspɒnsəbl/us
used to describe something, for example, a job, where you are able to act and make decisions on your own:
It's a responsible job for which I've been well rewarded.
 be responsible for sb/sth
to have control and authority over someone or something and the duty to take care of them:
He is responsible for the council's waste management department.
to make something happen, especially something bad:
She was responsible for causing the accident.
 be responsible to sb/sth
to be controlled by someone or something:
Only our elected representatives, responsible to us, can make these big decisions.
 hold sb/sth responsible
to blame someone or something for something bad that happened:
He was held responsible for the accident.
 be responsible for your actions
to be able to be fairly blamed for bad things that you do or mistakes that you make:
Although he was ill at the time, he was still responsible for his actions.

Examples of responsible

responsible
The author is responsible for the accuracy of quotations, tabular matter and references.
First, because we should deal with resources in a responsible, sustainable manner.
Several reasons might be responsible for the students' failure to benefit from the availability of multiple sources of information.
What is at stake is the extent to which technology was responsible for the suffering of these communities.
As shown in the design decomposition, the drive equipment specialist is responsible for selection and (optionally) assembly of the drive train components.
In his view, language may be and frequently is the main culprit responsible for human tragedy.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that the necessary equipment is available.
The three men were knowledgeable, responsible, and hard-working, but what stands out even more is the intensity of their commitment to the search.
Treating primary care clinicians remained responsible for all pharmacotherapy decisions.
Departments would on longer be responsible for delivering those services identified as suitable for delivery at arm's length.
Since 1990, municipalities became teachers' employers and organisers of school activities, and became responsible for allocating resources to schools.
The prediction is that people have a capacity for ideological learning from the results achieved by responsible political actors of various ideological denominations.
Currently, we cannot determine which process (if not both) is the one responsible for the thermalization.
The fir st of these terms is exclusively responsible for instability in our canonical problem (see below).
Since all groups repeated the target question only once, differences in production cannot be responsible.
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