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disability
[ dis-uh-bil-i-tee ]
noun
- lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
Synonyms: deficit, impairment
- a physical or mental impairment, especially one that hinders or prevents a person from performing tasks of daily living, carrying out work or household responsibilities, or engaging in leisure and social activities.
- anything that disables or puts one at a disadvantage:
His mere six-foot height will be a disability in professional basketball.
- the state or condition of being disabled.
- legal incapacity; legal disqualification.
disability
/ ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ /
noun
- the condition of being unable to perform a task or function because of a physical or mental impairment
- something that disables; handicap
- lack of necessary intelligence, strength, etc
- an incapacity in the eyes of the law to enter into certain transactions
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disability1
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Example Sentences
An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).
As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.
Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a longtime disability advocate, has made HCBS a priority, a Harkin aide told The Daily Beast.
Jason Kingsley, the son of one of the producers, would go on to appear 55 times on the show talking about his disability.
What if the pain her mother and doctors observed had nothing to do with disability, but was in fact pain?
Their disability however has been largely removed by statutes in all the states, as we shall learn in another place.
But a disability arising after the statute has begun to run in his favor will not prevent it from running.
In the face of such motives, in the disability under which I labor of stopping the evil, I had to seek my own safety.
On the 14th of October, 1862, Mr. Walter was honorably discharged from the service on account of disability.
(b) For total or partial disability for less than five years, 60 per cent.
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