'divide responsibility' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to talk about fairly distributing the workload or duties among multiple people. For example, "We decided to divide responsibility among the members of the team to ensure that the project was completed on time."
(Students may wish to divide responsibility, with each member of the group reading one or two articles.
When it decided to divide responsibility for overseeing the stock market and the currency markets between two different institutions, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the People's Bank of China, the government in Beijing was following Western best practices.
The meetings, which are part of a new policy instituted in recent months, have allowed different agencies to divide responsibility for crime in Newark, especially in cases involving the drug trade.
Our future president probably also discovered, as I did, that wonderful community known as the law school study group, where overworked students divide responsibility for portions of a syllabus and then pool their notes and interpretations.
Ford and Firestone, partners for a century, fell into bitter sniping before a Senate committee today, with top executives trading accusations about how the companies should divide responsibility for the dozens of deaths in rollover crashes involving Ford Explorers and Firestone tires.
Three commands now divide responsibility for operations in Africa: The European Command, which oversees most countries on the continent, except in the Horn of Africa; the Central Command, which has responsibility for Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya, and the Pacific Command, which has responsibility for Madagascar, the Seychelles and the Indian Ocean area.
Lawmakers are pushing the Treasury Department to decide how to divide responsibilities.
"One is senior to the other, but they basically divide responsibilities".
He said they would continue for another year to divide responsibilities in much the same way as they have.
Mangini said he had not decided how he would divide responsibilities between Westhoff and O'Dea, but he confirmed that Westhoff would call special-teams plays during games.
"To divide responsibilities like that is a very complex business...But more than that, there are things we must do sooner.
