Responsibility and Wing

Responsibility

Responsibility noun - The state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right.

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Wing and responsibility are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wing" instead a noun "Responsibility".

Nearby Words: responsible, responsibly

Wing noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.

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Responsibility and wing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Responsibility" instead a noun "Wing".

Nearby Words: winging, winged, winger, wingless

full	full responsibility	full wing
moderate	moderate responsibility	moderate wing
small	small responsibility	small wing
actual	actual responsibility	actual wing
Other adjectives: entire, real, main, new, medical.

Until Bush could be contacted, the acting President was actually Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill (a left-wing Democrat from Massachusetts whom Reagan was known to absolutely despise), though his only real responsibility was command over the US nuclear arsenal.

Source: Unexpected Successor
A non-law enforcement example occurs in the last episode of The West Wing, where a train is caught in an ice-storm at a point hazily around the Massachusetts / New Hampshire border and both state governors are dithering about exactly who's responsibility it is to send the rescue teams out.

Source: Jurisdiction Friction

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