minding store

Main Entry:
care [kair]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tend to
Synonyms: attend, baby sit, consider, foster, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, mind, mind the store, minister, mother, nurse, nurture, pay attention to, protect, provide for, ride herd on, sit, take pains, tend, treasure, wait on, watch, watch over
Antonyms: disregard, ignore, neglect
Main Entry: heed
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give care, thought to
Synonyms: attend, baby-sit, be aware, be guided by, bear in mind, catch, consider, dig*, do one's bidding, follow, follow orders, get a load of, give ear, hark, hear, hearken, keep eye peeled, keep tabs, listen, mark, mind, mind the store, note, obey, observe, pay attention, pick up, regard, ride herd on, see, sit, spot, stay in line, take notice of, take to heart, toe the line, watch, watch one's step, watch out, watch over, watch the store
Antonyms: disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook
Main Entry: mind
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attend, tend
Synonyms: baby-sit, be attentive, behold, care for, discern, discipline, ensure, give heed to, govern, guard, have charge of, keep an eye on, listen up, look, make certain, mark, mind the store, note, notice, observe, oversee, perceive, regard, ride herd on, see, sit, superintend, supervise, watch
Antonyms: ignore, neglect
Main Entry: responsible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: accountable, in charge
Synonyms: answerable, at fault, at the helm, authoritative, bonded, bound, bound to, carrying the load, censurable, chargeable, compelled, constrained, contracted, culpable, decision-making, devolving on, duty-bound, engaged, executive, exposed, fettered, guilty, hampered, held, high, important, in authority, in control, incumbent, liable, minding the store, obligated, obliged, on the hook, open, pledged, subject, susceptive, sworn to, tied, to blame, under contract, under obligation
Notes: to be accountable is to be liable to being called to account or answerable; liable means legally obligated or responsible; and responsible is liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust
Antonyms: excused, exempt, free, immune, irresponsible
Related Words
Main Entry: duty
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
accountable, affianced, amenable, answerable, beholden to, behooving, binding, bound, bound by, bound to, casuistical, chargeable on, committed, compromised, conscientious, due to, dutiful, ethical, ethological, imperative, in duty bound, in for it, incumbent on, indebted to, liable, meet, moral, obligatory, obliged to, peremptory, pledged, promised, promising, promissory, responsible, right, saddled with, stringent, tied by, tied down, under hand and seal, under obligation, upon oath, votive
Related Words
Main Entry: heed
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
absorbed, alive to, askance, attentive, audient, awake to, beseeching, breathless, cognizant, come, distraught, engaged in, engrossed in, excubant, expergefacient, fleeting, furtive, intent on, levisomnous, measured, mindful, observant, observing, occupied with, on the watch, open, rapt, regardant, regardful, steadfast, taken up with, undistracted, upon the stretch, vultured, watchful, wrapped in
Main Entry: mind
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
branular, cacophrenic, cerebral, conative, endowed with reason, ghostly, hyperactive, ideogenous, immaterial, intellectual, mental, meshuge, metaphysical, multanimous, nooscopic, philonoetic, preconscious, primal, psychagogic, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, psychological, psychotropic, rational, self, spirituel, strung, subjective, subliminal, unbalanced, unstable, wud
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Care. [Vigilance.]
Synonyms:
-nouns
care, solicitude, heed; heedfulness; scruple (conscientiousness)., watchfulness; vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre., alertness (activity); attention; prudence, circumspection (caution); anxiety; forethought; precaution (preparation); tidiness (order), (cleanliness) [more]; accuracy (exactness); minuteness, attention to detail.
-verbs
be careful; reck; take care (be cautious); pay attention to; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see after; keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize, play gooseberry; keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch; keep in sight, keep in view; mind, mind on'e business., look sharp, look about one; look with one's own eyes; keep a good lookout, keep a sharp lookout; have all one's wits about one, have all one's eyes about one; watch for (expect); keep one's eyes open, have the eyes open, sleep with one's eye open.
-adjectives
careful, regardful, heedful; taking care; particular; prudent (cautious); considerate; thoughtful (deliberative); provident (prepared); alert (active); sure-footed., guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant)., tidy (orderly), (clean) [more]; accurate (exact); scrupulous (conscientious); cavendo tutus (safe).
-adverbs
carefully; with care, gingerly.
-phrases
quis custodiet istos custodes? "care will kill a cat" [Wither]; ni bebas aqua que no veas; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!" [Henry IV]; "the
Antonyms: neglect
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Duty.
Category: 1. Moral obligations
Synonyms:
-nouns
duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability., allegiance, fealty, tie engagement (promise) [more]; part; function, calling (business)., morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience; the hell within., dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum; the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do., [Science of morals] ethics, ethology.; deontology, aretology; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity., observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.
-verbs
be the duty of; be incumbent on, be responsible; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself (promise) [more]; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself., impose a duty; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige., enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty (be virtuous) [more]., be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.
-adjectives
obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent (severe); behooving; incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with., due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to; tied down; compromised (promised); in duty bound., amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable., right, meet (due); moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious, ethological.
-adverbs
with a safe conscience, as in duty, bound, on one's own responsibility, at one's own risk, suo periculo; in foro conscientiae; quamdiu se bene gesserit.
-phrases
dura lex sed lex; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honos habet onus; leve fit quod bene fertur onus [Ovid]; loyauté m'oblige; "simple duty hath no place for fear" [Whittier]; "stern daughter of the voice of God" [Wordsworth]; "there
Antonyms: dereliction of duty
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