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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.

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