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responsibly

adverbB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,215 of 15,258neutral

Responsibly means in a way that shows you can be trusted with the duty. Act responsibly, drink responsibly, source it responsibly.

Drink responsibly is the standard formula on every alcohol advertisement and puts the duty on the drinker rather than the seller. Responsibly sourced is the same manoeuvre applied to supply chains.

Definitions of responsibly

  1. 1adverbresponsiblyIn a way that shows you can be trusted with the duty.B1+

    “We trust you to use the car responsibly while we're away.”

responsibly is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    responsus

  2. Old French

    responsable

  3. Middle French

    responsable

  4. English

    responsible

  5. English, today

    responsibly

From responsible + -ly. responsible comes from Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondeō. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible. by surface analysis, response + -ible.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

responsibly in the wild

  • Seven Principles of Auditing Integrity: The foundation of professionalism; perform work ethically, honestly, and responsibly.

    ISO 19011

  • Alia2 works together with other public entities to combat this threat by educating parents and children how to use new technologies responsibly.

    Alia2 Foundation

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the responsus family

responsibleresponsibility

responsibly — used about once every 8,182 pages · #11,215 · point at the bar for the others

  • response