liability meaning
EN[laɪəˈbɪlɪti]US
WLiability
- A liability can mean something that is a hindrance or puts an individual or group at a disadvantage, or something someone is responsible for, or something that increases the chance of something occurring (i.e. it is a cause).
- Liability may also refer in specific fields to:
- Legal liability, the legal bound obligation to pay debts
- Public liability, part of the law of tort which focuses on civil wrongs
- NounPLliabilitiesSUF-ability
- the condition of being liable.
- an obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- a handicap that holds something back.
- the likelihood of something happening.
- the condition of being liable.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Indeed, when tested as a linear trend indexing transdiagnostic psychosis liability from controls to BPD to FEP, the association was large and significant.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of liability in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary