responsibility

pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with (do)., drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work., officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office, discharge the office, perform the office, perform the duties, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio., be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full (activity) [more]., be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.

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.

command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders., prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task; set to work, put in requisition., bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of; exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on (compel)., claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim., cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon., issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order; give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command (authority); remand., be ordered; receive an order

be in debt; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt; run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable., answer for, go bail for.

be difficult; run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of (hinder)., meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty, fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles., have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to the pinch; bear the brunt., grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs., get into a scrape; bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears., render difficult; enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel, entangle; put a spoke in the wheel (hinder); lead a pretty dance.

part, divide, break (disjoin); partition (apportion).

support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage., give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed., maintain, keep on foot; aid.