liability

Plural

liabilities

1. 1.An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.

   • Those products – known as liability-driven investing, or LDIs – help offset liabilities and risks on pension funds’ books.

2. 2.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.

   • You're a bloody liability sometimes!

3. 3.The likelihood of something happening.

4. 4.The condition of being susceptible to something.

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Antonyms

• asset
• plus

Word family

• reliability