shared responsibility — joint duty
collocationB1IELTS 5+neutraloccasional
A situation where two or more people are all responsible for something together, rather than just one person.
Say it like a native
Textbook The duty is held jointly by both of us in equal measure.
Native It's a shared responsibility.
'A shared responsibility' packs the whole idea into one phrase.
Pattern: shared responsibility (for something) (between/among people)
In use
- Raising children is often a shared responsibility between parents.daily life
- In my opinion, protecting the environment should be a shared responsibility between governments and individuals.IELTS speaking
Common mistake
✗ Childcare is a share responsibility.
✓ Childcare is a shared responsibility.
'Shared' (the -ed adjective), not 'share'.
Common collocations
a shared responsibility— collective, equally, sense of, becomes
Don't confuse it
Different from 'individual responsibility', which means only one person is responsible.