Antonyms for liability


Grammar : Noun
Spell : lahy-uh-bil-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˌlaɪ əˈbɪl ɪ ti


Definition of liability

Origin :
  • 1790, originally a term in law; "condition of being legally liable;" see liable + -ity. General sense is from 1809; meaning "thing for which one is liable" is first attested 1842. Related: Liabilities.
  • noun answerability, responsibility
  • noun burden, debt
  • noun chance, probability
Example sentences :
  • Would Lord Culduff be disposed to accept his share in this liability?
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.
  • Extract from : « On Laboratory Arts » by Richard Threlfall
  • How this liability was dispelled, will be related, with other incidents, in the next chapter.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.
  • Extract from : « Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience » by Henry David Thoreau
  • This early rule of law fixing their liability has been greatly changed.
  • Extract from : « Up To Date Business » by Various
  • You realize that you're probably as big a liability with us as you were trying to find us?
  • Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
  • The liability of the owner was simply a liability of the offending thing.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Liability is said to arise out of such conduct as would be blameworthy in him.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • It will be readily seen that there are limits to this kind of liability.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • The foundation of liability in trespass as well as case was said to be negligence.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Synonyms for liability

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