responsible for

1. 1.

   being the agent or cause

   “determined who was the responsible party”

   “termites were responsible for the damage”

   Synonymsresponsible

   Similarcausative

Questions about responsible for

What does responsible for mean?

responsible for means "being the agent or cause".

What is another word for responsible for?

Close synonyms include responsible. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is responsible for a common word?

responsible for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.