Word Meanings - LIABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets. Limited liability. See Limited company, under Limited. (more info) 1. The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law. 2. That

Additional info about word: LIABILITY

the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets. Limited liability. See Limited company, under Limited. (more info) 1. The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law. 2. That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable. Specifically, in the pl.,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIABILITY)

• Aptitude
• Fitness
• liability
• susceptibility
• suitableness
• readiness
• quickness
• cleverness
• proneness
• tendency
• Debt
• Debit
• default
• obligation
• claim
• score
• something due
• Jurisdiction
• Administration
• cognizance
• government
• control
• sway
• power
• legalization
• magistracy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIABILITY)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Neglect
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to LIABILITY)

• SCORER
  One who, or that which, scores.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• DEBITOR
  A debtor. Shak.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• DEBITUMINIZE
  To deprive of bitumen.
• FOREGO
  1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach,
• WAIVE
  A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 , and the Note. (more info) 1. A waif; a castaway. Donne.
• ABJUREMENT
  Renunciation.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• APTITUDE
  1. A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.
• DISAVOW
  1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• FOURSCORE
  Four times twenty; eighty.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.