- plural of liability.
liabilities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The default withholding rate of 22% might not cover tax liabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
These are the estimated unfunded liabilities only for the next 75 years.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
And they merely represent the value of those future liabilities discounted to the present — in other words, the money we’d need to set aside today to meet all those future obligations.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
In 2015, Justice bought Bluestone back for $5 million in cash and acquired hundreds of millions of dollars in environmental liabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Indeed, Dobzhansky recognized that natural variation was a vital reservoir for an organism—an asset that far outweighed its liabilities.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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