Definitions for liability

liability li·a·bil·i·ty

Spelling: [lahy-uh-bil-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌlaɪ əˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Liability is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in liability (abiiillty).

Definitions for liability

noun

  1. liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital.
  2. something disadvantageous:
  3. Also, liableness. the state or quality of being liable:

Origin of liability

First recorded in 1785-95; li(able) + -ability

Examples for liability

How this liability was dispelled, will be related, with other incidents, in the next chapter.

Except for in the Academy, where a low number seems to be a liability.

So the company and its insurance policy bear no liability for what happened.

This early rule of law fixing their liability has been greatly changed.

But will his racially charged rhetoric make him a liability instead?

And when it comes to liability litigation, as inevitably it will, Rolls Royce would seem to be off the hook.

With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

Would Lord Culduff be disposed to accept his share in this liability?

They also have liability insurance, which helps them make payments to passengers who are harmed or killed.

This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.

Word Value for liability
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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