na. | 1. be one's unshirkable responsibility [duty]; an inescapable [unshirkable] duty; be a responsibility one cannot relinquish; be duty-bound; bounden duty; cannot shift the responsibility to [on] others [any one else]; have a bounden duty (to do...); have no excuse for avoiding one's duties; Responsibility for a mistake cannot be put on others.; There is no shirking of one's responsibility. |