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An example use of responsible in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… vendors who will be responsible for …”
Responsible means having the ability to take care of something or someone.
the word responsible occurs in english on average 94.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that responsible can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;