charge
appoint
cover
kartavya
call of duty
incumbency
ought
ought to
part
responsible
fall on
devolve
moral obligation
lay something at the feet of
responsibility
go
obliged
up to
take over
obliging
dutiful
obligational
debt
office
job
oblige
emburden
taklif
go about one's day
responsibilize
obligatory
saddle
go about one's business
lay
burden
deontic
assume the mantle
take responsibility
mandate
commission
commissioning
name
bond
assume
incumbent
do the honors
answerability
play into someone's hands
accountability
dharma
answerableness
trust
accountment
trustworthy
obligated
ownership
intensive
onus
remit
function
serve
take it upon oneself
take possession
entitle
beholden
astringe
mediatorial
running
prest
dutifully
liability
set-aside
at the feet of
line of duty
row to hoe
mercership
scot and lot
direct
supposed
obligator
assigneeship
guarantee
obligation
authorise
carry the mantle
committed
empower
lie at someone's door
authorize
command
responsible
obliged
dutiful
obligational
obligatory
deontic
incumbent
trustworthy
obligated
intensive
beholden
mediatorial
set-aside
supposed
committed
dutifully
kartavya
call of duty
incumbency
part
moral obligation
responsibility
obliging
charge
debt
office
job
taklif
commission
commissioning
bond
answerability
accountability
dharma
answerableness
trust
accountment
ownership
onus
remit
running
prest
liability
line of duty
row to hoe
mercership
scot and lot
obligator
assigneeship
obligation
burden
charge
appoint
cover
ought
ought to
fall on
devolve
lay something at the feet of
go
take over
oblige
emburden
go about one's day
responsibilize
saddle
go about one's business
lay
burden
assume the mantle
take responsibility
mandate
name
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function
serve
take it upon oneself
take possession
entitle
astringe
direct
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authorise
carry the mantle
empower
lie at someone's door
authorize
command
verb
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- To act as a replacement.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To be enough money for.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- To protect or control (a piece or square).
noun
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A cover charge.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- A lid.
- In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
adj
noun
- Duty; responsibility.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- A section of a document.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- A group inside a larger group.
- In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A distinct element of something larger.
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
adj
adv
verb
adj
- Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- Answerable to (a superior).
- Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- In honor shame culture and patronage, the patron of the entity denoted by the prepositional phrase's compliment AKA object, the entity being its client. In this context the patron is usually being described analogously to a rump state that would govern the client, functioning as though it were a complaints department and a disciplinary apparatus by getting involved in any disputes involving the client, e.g. by acid attacking its own client or by taking revenge against the client's accuser.
noun
noun
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
verb
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
prep
- Incumbent upon; the obligation of; the duty of.
- Until.
- Considering all members of an equivalence class the same.
- Within the authority or jurisdiction of.
- Doing; involved in.
- For the option or decision of.
- As much as; no more than.
- Next to; near; towards; as far as.
- Ready for.
- Capable of.
- Willing to participate in.
adj
verb
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To become more successful (than someone or something else).
- To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
noun
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- A position of responsibility.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- A daily service without the eucharist.
- A ministry or other department of government.
- The administrative departments housed in such places
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- Inside information.
- Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- A service, a kindness.
- Last rites.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
- A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- The staff of such places.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- A ceremonial duty or service
- Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
verb
noun
- the responsibility to do something
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
verb
noun
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
verb
noun
- a document giving an official instruction or command
- a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
- the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
noun
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- a group of representatives or delegates
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- the act of committing a crime
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
verb
verb
- To designate for a role.
- To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
- To identify as relevant or important
- To mention, specify.
- To publicly implicate by name.
- To give a name to.
- To disclose the name of.
noun
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Authority.
- An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- A person (or legal person).
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- Reputation.
noun
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A peasant; churl.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A bail bond.
- A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- A mortgage.
verb
- To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- To form a chemical compound with.
adj
noun
- One's obligation in respect to one's position in society, or the universe; one's duty, societally or cosmically.
- The natural order of the universe; natural law, cosmic order.
- The teachings of the Buddha as one's personal path to enlightenment.
- The teachings of the Buddha as a practice to be promulgated and taught.
noun
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Trustworthiness, reliability.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
verb
- To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
adj
noun
adj
- Serving to give force or emphasis.
- Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
- Thorough; to a great degree; with intensity.
- Demanding; requiring a great amount of work etc.
- Related to the need to manage life-threatening conditions by means of sophisticated life support and monitoring.
- Highly concentrated.
noun
noun
- Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
- A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɹiːmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- Audio (UK) (file)
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɹimɪt/, /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
verb
- Rhymes: -ɪt
- Audio (UK) (file)
- To restore or replace.
- To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- To postpone.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈmɪt/
- To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
- IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
verb
- serve a purpose, role, or function
- perform as expected when applied
- perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function
noun
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- what something is used for
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
verb
- serve a purpose, role, or function
- do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function
- contribute or conduce to
- be used by; as of a utility
- help to some food; help with food or drink
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas
- promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- work for, or be a servant to
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- do military service
- mate with
- put the ball into play
noun
noun
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- the state of being in operation
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
adj
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- of advancing the ball by running
- executed or initiated by running
adj
noun
- An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.
- Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
- The condition of being susceptible to something.
- A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
- The likelihood of something happening.
verb
- To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
- To manage, control, steer.
- To aim (something) at (something else).
- To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
adv
adj
- having a single flight number.
- Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
- Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
- Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- Straightforward; sincere.
- In the line of descent; not collateral.
- In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
verb
- To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
- To make something certain.
- To give an assurance that something will be done right.
noun
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
noun
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
- a written promise to repay a debt
- a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
verb
- To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
- To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
- To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
- to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
- To hold, to control the use of.
- To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
noun
- power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
- A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
- An order to do something.
- Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
- A command performance.
- A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
- A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
- The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
- The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
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