collective responsibility

collocation in English

meanings of collectiveand responsibility

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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk /kəˈlek.tɪv/ us /kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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responsibility
noun
uk /rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us /rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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Examples of collective responsibility

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Although they held the view that the individual is responsible, participants also supported collectiveresponsibility for later life.
The eruption of the border war stoked the old fears of survival, and revived the sense of collectiveresponsibility nurtured for half a century.
An alternative model of welfare would draw on collectiveresponsibility through the state.
Charitable donations and foundations helped to balance individual wealth with collectiveresponsibility.
While the documents make clear that matrilineages were the first to suffer, collectiveresponsibility reached far beyond this group.
Is collectiveresponsibility the same as individual responsibility?
Ministers must maintain collectiveresponsibility, and being on the government's 'payroll' is clearly an incentive to loyalty.
The issue is not therefore about responsibility versus irresponsibility but about the most appropriate balance between individual responsibility and collectiveresponsibility.
Such rhetoric highlights 'collectiveresponsibility' and 'duty of care'; for some, these attributes appear embedded in welfare state institutions.
Current political trends are however characterised by moves to replace collectiveresponsibility with individual responsibility.
Thus, dealing with individual loss caused due to service in the name of this goal was regarded as a collectiveresponsibility.
Ultimately, however, it is the second route that offers the strongest hopes for the emergence of collectiveresponsibility over transnational commons.
In practice to date, however, it seems that collective guilt and collectiveresponsibility are being increasingly invoked in support of collective reparation.
Throughout their accounts, the participants linked individual behaviour to collectiveresponsibility, particularly with regard to health.
Further attention is given over to the moral significance of collectiveresponsibility on individual actions.
This is a summary of a very long text, which actually goes on with collectiveresponsibility and other harsh laws.
These actions increased the burden on other villagers who, because of the principle of collectiveresponsibility, became responsible for additional dues.
Individuals are taking collectiveresponsibility for their welfare rather than individual responsibility.
Collectiveresponsibility, on the other hand, allows for less individual freedom/'choice' but is less risky for everyone and can be less regressive.
It is perhaps on the point of experiencing collective guilt and acknowledging collective responsibility that we begin to experience appropriate moral maturity.
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