to take responsibility for something
1take responsibility for — be accountable for something, be liable for …
2take the fall for something — take the fall (for (someone/something)) to accept responsibility for something. The team s general manager takes the fall when the team loses but gets a lot of credit when they do well …
3take the fall (for something) — take the ˈfall (for sb/sth) idiom (informal, especially NAmE) to accept responsibility or punishment for sth that you did not do, or did not do alone • He took the fall for his boss and resigned. • Who will take the fall for the scandal? …
4Responsibility for the Holocaust — Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its… …
5Responsibility for the September 11 attacks — Soon after the September 11 attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was able to identify the 19 hijackers [cite press release |url=http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm |title=The FBI releases 19 photographs of individuals… …
6responsibility — re|spon|si|bil|i|ty [ rı,spansə bıləti ] noun *** 1. ) uncount the state or job of being in charge of someone or something and of making sure that what they do or what happens to them is right or satisfactory: She has a lot of responsibility in… …
7To take order for — Take Take, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands …
8take the fall for someone — take the fall (for (someone/something)) to accept responsibility for something. The team s general manager takes the fall when the team loses but gets a lot of credit when they do well …
9take the fall for — take the fall (for (someone/something)) to accept responsibility for something. The team s general manager takes the fall when the team loses but gets a lot of credit when they do well …
10take the fall — (for (someone/something)) to accept responsibility for something. The team s general manager takes the fall when the team loses but gets a lot of credit when they do well …
