collectively responsible

Frequency: 7.08.5 per million words

Used to describe a shared responsibility among a group.

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Examples (10)

  • The board of directors is collectively responsible for the company's financial health.
  • As a team, we are collectively responsible for meeting the project deadline.
  • The cabinet is collectively responsible to the parliament for its decisions.
  • Although one person made the error, the entire department was held collectively responsible.
  • All members of the community are collectively responsible for keeping the local park clean.
  • The jurors were collectively responsible for reaching a just and fair verdict.
  • In our family, we are collectively responsible for all the household chores.
  • The students in the group will be collectively responsible for the final presentation.
  • Under this principle, all ministers are collectively responsible for government policy.
  • The event organizers felt collectively responsible for the safety of all attendees.