Usually means: Responsibility for actions, legal obligations.
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We found 63 dictionaries that define the word liability:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. liability: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. liability: Merriam-Webster
  3. liability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. liability: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. liability: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Liability, liability: Wordnik
  7. liability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. liability: Wiktionary
  9. liability: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. liability: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. liability: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. liability: Dictionary.com
  13. liability: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Liability (Lorde song), Liability (accounting), Liability (album), Liability (disambiguation), Liability (financial accounting), Liability (song), Liability, The Liability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Liability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. liability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. liability: Rhymezone
  18. liability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. liability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. liability: FreeDictionary.org
  21. liability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. liability: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. liability: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. liability: Vocabulary.com

Business (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. liability: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. liability: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. liability: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  6. liability: Law.com Dictionary
  7. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  10. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  11. LIABILITY: Accounting Glossary
  12. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  13. Liability: bizterms.net
  14. Liability: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  15. Liability: Harvey Financial
  16. Liability: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  17. Liability: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  18. Liability: Inflation Glossary
  19. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  20. Liability: Investopedia
  21. Liability: Energy Dictionary
  22. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  23. Liability: INSOLVENCY
  24. liability: Legal dictionary
  25. liability: Financial dictionary
  26. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  27. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  28. Liability: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  29. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. liability: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. liability: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  2. liability: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. liability: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Liability: Backgammon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
noun:  (accounting) Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
noun:  A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; a person or action that exposes others to greater risk.
noun:  (informal, mildly derogatory) A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
noun:  The likelihood of something happening.
noun:  The condition of being susceptible to something.

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