collectively responsible
Frequency: 7.08.5 per million words
Used to describe a shared responsibility among a group.
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- 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.