Responsible

Definition

responsible /rÇ'spɒnsǝbl/ adj ၁။ ~ (for sb/ sth); ~ (for doing sth) တာဝန္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ the Minister responsible for environmental issues ❍ The driver is responsible for the safety of his passengers. ❍ Parents should be responsible for teaching their children the difference between right and wrong. ၂။ ~ (for sth) တာဝန္ရိွ[ေသာ]။ တရားခံျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ Who's responsible for this mess? ❍ Smoking is responsible for many cases of lung cancer. ❍ She is mentally ill and cannot be held responsible for her actions. ၃။ ~ to sb/ sth တာဝန္ခံရ [ေသာ]။ be directly responsible to the President. ၄။ (က) စိတ္ခ်ယံုၾကည္ရေသာ။ စဥ္းစားခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ တာဝန္သိ ေသာ။ behave like responsible citizens/ adults ❍ show a responsible attitude. Compare IRRESPONSIBLE (ခ) တာဝန္ရိွေသာ။ a highly responsible position/ role. ❏ responsibly /-ǝbli/ adv တာဝန္သိသိ။ act/ behave responsibly.

Examples

1. Parents feel responsible when things go wrong.
2. [hold someone responsible (for something)] : The farmer was held responsible for the damage done by his animals.
3. [find someone responsible (for something)] : How long will they be in prison if they are found responsible?
4. [responsible for] : The chemical is directly responsible for those deaths.
5. He was responsible for the accident.
6. [responsible for] : The manager is responsible for the general running of the theatre.
7. She may be only 14
8. but she’s very responsible.
9. Schools have adopted a very responsible attitude towards the problem.