abdication of responsibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsofabdicationandresponsibility
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abdication
noun[U]
uk/ˌæb.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the fact of no longer controlling or managing something that you are in ...
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responsibility
noun
uk/rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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(Definition ofabdicationandresponsibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is only by becoming an official of the state that such anabdicationofresponsibilityis justifiable.
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Is that not anabdicationofresponsibility, given the problems that we face and the desperate need for increased resources?
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This does not represent anyabdicationofresponsibilityon our behalf.
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With thatabdicationofresponsibility, it is both our right and duty to take up the task of scrutiny of all regulation.
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If we found someone else to take our responsibilities away from us, that would be anabdicationofresponsibility, and it would blur the lines.
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What an extraordinaryabdicationofresponsibilitystands revealed by that paragraph.
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I am very far from advocating anabdicationofresponsibility.
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There would be noabdicationofresponsibilityin that.
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To fail to do this would be anabdicationofresponsibilityand a morally wrong evasion.
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They have shown a disgracefulabdicationofresponsibility.
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To do otherwise would be anabdicationofresponsibility.
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It seems to me an extraordinaryabdicationofresponsibilityon the part of parents to wring their hands helplessly and to say.
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Leaving the matter to the media would be anabdicationofresponsibilityand would be quite without justification.
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Thatabdicationofresponsibilitycomes from the very top.
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Children have been placed in homes where the proprietor's expressed philosophy constitutes a totalabdicationofresponsibilityfor care and control.
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Thatabdicationofresponsibilityis one of the strangest aspects of the debate.
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It would be anabdicationofresponsibilityto base plans for the future on the most optimistic assumptions.
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I believe that to be anabdicationofresponsibility.
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It would have been anabdicationofresponsibility.
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I thought that the comments earlier in the debate implied that there was anabdicationofresponsibilityin the context of the internal market.
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