noun as in responsibility
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accountability, agreement, bond, burden, commitment, constraint, contract, debt, duty, liability, necessity, need, promise, requirement, right, trust, understanding
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business, call, cause, charge, chit, committal, compulsion, conscience, debit, devoir, dues, engagement, IOU, must, occasion, onus, part, place, restraint
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Although corporations can opt in to become a PBC, there is no obligation on them to do so and they need the support of their shareholders.
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Right now, 71 percent of all non-agricultural part-time workers fit the latter category, and one of the biggest noneconomic reasons that people look for or accept part-time work is child care obligations.
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Each of us has an obligation to befriend people who are different from us and invite them into our homes.
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Earlier in lockdown, when people were always available — because life outside the home was essentially banned — there were new, complicated obligations to be virtually present.
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By spreading out the payments over many years, he could keep his tax obligations low.
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Obviously, thefirstobligation ofallliberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law.
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It is the obligation of citizens and journalists as well as governments.
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“It is our Islamic obligation to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State and give it our Islamic fealty,” he said.
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Even the best of us can hurt the people who come to us for care when we forget that our foremost obligation is to them.
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This government obligation is limited by practical considerations of safety and security.
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There is an implied obligation on the hirer's part to use the car only for the purpose and in the manner for which it was hired.
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With this political subjection one is reluctant to associate a more sordid kind of obligation.
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The swearing of an oath always brings under obligation to God, and therefore always includes the making of a vow.
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If he carries these gratuitously his obligation is still less, nevertheless he must even then take some care of them.
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Sometimes a moral obligation to pay money is a good consideration for a promising to pay it.
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