Liability
[laɪə'bɪlɪtɪ] or ['laɪə'bɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being something that holds you back.
(noun.) the state of being legally obliged and responsible.
Editor: Rufus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
(n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.
(n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.
Typist: Randall
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Responsibility, accountableness, accountability, bounden duty.[2]. Exposedness.
Typed by Eliza
Examples
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She was getting away from Tipton and Freshitt, and her own sad liability to tread in the wrong places on her way to the New Jerusalem. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Get him to admit the bank's liability, and then say to him that Mr. Edison does not think the bank should suffer because he happened to have a dishonest clerk in his employ. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Possibly I am the only one who thought of the liability of such a state of things in advance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But after the death of Alexander III, in 1181, the peculiar weakness of the papacy, its liability to fall to old and enfeebled men, became manifest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The typewriter saves time, labor, postage and paper; it reduces the liability to mistakes, brings system into official correspondence, and delights the heart of the printer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This was done; the bank admitting its liability and being much pleased with this action. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This does away with the necessity of carrying the ladle of iron a long distance, thus saving much time and lessening the liability to accidents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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