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US
/ˌɫaɪəˈbɪɫətiz, ˌɫaɪəˈbɪɫɪtiz/
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[ UK /lˌaɪəbˈɪlɪtiz/ ]
[ UK /lˌaɪəbˈɪlɪtiz/ ]
NOUN
- anything that is owed to someone else
How To Use liabilities In A Sentence
- Thou shalt not deliver unto his master," &c., sets the servant free from his _authority_ and of course, from all those liabilities of injury, to which _as his servant_, he was subjected, but not from the obligation of legal contracts. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
- At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer. Balkinization
- The other elephant in the room was decommissioning liabilities. Times, Sunday Times
- But, sooner or later the overhang of monetary liabilities would undermine confidence in the key currency.
- The assets will be used to reduce the figures for government debt and the liabilities will simply disappear from view. Times, Sunday Times
- It is also beneficial to take a close look at ballooning household assets and liabilities.
- The unfunded liabilities in entitlement schemes are already showing that they're reaching their tipping points a decade earlier than projected; for the last five months, Social Security has taken in less money into the "trust fund" than it has disbursed - in other words, the tipping point predicted (variously) in 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, etc - it is here and now: social security is now having to be made whole by the general fund. Latest Articles
- In recent years considerable research has been undertaken to build computer models of asset performance and returns and their correlation with liabilities.
- We are talking about proper cash liabilities now. Times, Sunday Times
- We want to retire with the largest possible pot of assets and the least amount of liabilities.