take responsibility
Verb

take responsibility (third-person singular simple present takes responsibility, present participle taking responsibility, simple past took responsibility, past participle taken responsibility)

  1. To blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault.
    I take responsibility for my poor choice; it was my fault.
  2. To accept or take on an obligation or liability.
    The new captain will take responsibility for the ship at the beginning of January.
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