RESPONSIBLE FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does responsible for mean? 

• RESPONSIBLE FOR (adjective)
  The adjective RESPONSIBLE FOR has 1 sense:

1. being the agent or cause

  Familiarity information: RESPONSIBLE FOR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPONSIBLE FOR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being the agent or cause

Synonyms:

responsible; responsible for

Context example:

termites were responsible for the damage

Similar:

causative (producing an effect)

 Context examples 

These results showed that the receptor responsible for detecting carbon dioxide also detects skin odorants.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

In conjunction with myosin, actin is responsible for the contraction and relaxation of muscle.

(Actin, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissue responsible for the body movements and the shape and size changes of interna organs.

(Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Considered the workhorse molecules of cells, proteins are responsible for nearly every task in living systems.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)

Certain allelic variants of the BCHE gene are responsible for hypocholinesterasemia, resulting in suxamethonium sensitivity and post-anesthetic apnea.

(BCHE wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Binding to CNS nicotinic acetylcholine receptors causes the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine which appears to be responsible for the addiction of nicotine.

(Nicotine lozenge, NCI Thesaurus)

All of us have a small area devoid of blood vessels in the center of our retinas that is responsible for our most precise vision.

(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A person who is responsible for establishing and managing user accounts.

(Account Administrator, NCI Thesaurus)

But Mr. Dick got taxed with such things in the course of his Parliamentary career, and was made responsible for such awful consequences, that he became uncomfortable in his mind sometimes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The portion of the rodent stomach that is responsible for storage and digestion of food particles but does not contain the gastric mucosa-associated glands.

(Nonglandular Stomach, NCI Thesaurus)