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
- 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
- account
- accountability
- accountableness
- amenability
- amenableness
- arrear
- arrearage
- bad news
- baggage
- balance
- bite
- blame
- burden
- chance
- chit
- compulsion
- contingency
- contract
- culpability
- damage
- debit
- debt
- disadvantage
- drag
- drawback
- due
- duty
- encumbrance
- exposure
- handicap
- hindrance
- impediment
- inconvenience
- indebtedness
- indebtment
- involvement
- IOU
- lease
- likelihood
- loan
- millstone
- minus
- misfortune
- mortgage
- nuisance
- obligation
- onus
- openness
- owing
- pledge
- possibility
- proneness
- remainder
- responsibility
- subjection
- susceptibility
- tab
- tendency
- vulnerability
- vulnerableness
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