| 单词 | liability |
| 释义 | liability (laɪəbɪlɪti ) Word forms: liabilities 1. countable noun [usually singular] If you say that someone or something is a liability, you mean that they cause a lot of problems or embarrassment. Team-mates and coach began to see him as a liability. What was once a vote-catching policy is now a political liability. Synonyms: disadvantage, burden, drawback, inconvenience 2. countable noun [usually plural] A company's or organization's liabilities are the sums of money which it owes. [business, or law] The company had assets of $138 million and liabilities of $120.5 million. 3. See also liable Collocations: accept liability The council does not accept liability for what happened. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Organisations are usually unprepared to accept liability and very often try to fob the blame off. The Sun (2015) If neither party wishes to accept liability then you could bring a claim in the small claims court against both parties. The Sun (2015) There is a big difference between civil and criminal liability, and the two should not be confused. Times, Sunday Times (2008) They also are subject to criminal liability. Christianity Today (2000) If they pursue a person after a bill has been settled, they run the risk of civil and, potentially, criminal liability. Times, Sunday Times (2009) All three defendants deny liability. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The airline denied liability, blaming bad weather on a previous flight for the delay. Times, Sunday Times (2015) For solicitors these cases can be difficult, particularly when the responsible employer persists in denying liability. Times, Sunday Times (2014) If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability. The Sun (2016) It is terrible that bankruptcy protects culprits from financial liability. The Sun (2008) The manufacturers of the drug were understandably keen to minimise their financial liability. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Heritage paid $121 million and set up an escrow account to settle any future liability. Times, Sunday Times Employers will be left with a potential future liability that could see them paying money into the scheme to prevent former workers from being left without enough to live on. Times, Sunday Times Deficits are an actuarial calculation of the scheme's future liability, based on assumptions about investment returns, people's life expectancy and other metrics that could change. Times, Sunday Times The fund's total liabilities fell to 119.4 billion because of a reduction in the discount rate used to value future liabilities. Times, Sunday Times Each scheme will be different, depending on how precisely hedged they are to their future liabilities. Times,Sunday Times Such deals offer the club protection from incurring huge liabilities when players are injured or lose form. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Is it possible to sign back the property to her without either of us incurring any tax liabilities? Times, Sunday Times (2010) But Britain will still incur liabilities of up to £4.5 billion as a result of its participation in an EU emergency facility and as a shareholder of the IMF. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Where there is a legal liability to pay compensation, we do so. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Your legal liability is to pay to put the neighbours in the position they were in before the leak. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Uncertainty about the group's legal liability for alleged phone hacking remains, though. Times, Sunday Times (2014) But the new system could shift the liability costs of fraud onto churches or retail outlets if they fail to implement the new system. Christianity Today The force has had to concede third-party liability costs to the other driver. Times, Sunday Times In 2007, the company set aside $390 million for predicted asbestos liability costs through 2017. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She could not market her services as a solicitor to anyone other than the limited liability partnership and was an integral part of their business. Times, Sunday Times I don't know whether to set it up as a company or a limited liability partnership to keep my tax to a minimum. Times, Sunday Times You could also consider incorporating a limited liability partnership in your group to minimise future tax. Times, Sunday Times First, a limited liability partnership was a corporate body with a legal personality separate from that of its members; it was not a firm in the sense of a partnership. Times, Sunday Times A limited liability partnership was designed by the claimants for raising investment in the project the aim of which was to install screens in up to 10,000 cabs. Times, Sunday Times In light of a growing liability risk the school ended the annual tub races in the early 1990s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also include several liability risks, such as injuries or deaths occurring on a denomination's property or in the course of its activities. Christianity Today These types of personnel must follow a strict set of rules because of very high liability risks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Pension plans face a variety of liability risks including price and wage inflation risk, interest rate risk and longevity risk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, increasing the size of the networks can enhance legal liability risks and quality control issues that have not been resolved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Customers who rent can opt for a damage liability waiver, which varies according to the value of the work. Times, Sunday Times Often these standard terms conflict (e.g. both parties include a liability waiver in their form). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, businesses may require that persons sign a waiver (called a liability waiver) acknowledging and accepting the hazards of an activity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the right to hold a person liable through a lawsuit are waived, the waiver may be called an exculpatory clause, liability waiver, legal release, or hold harmless clause. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The bicycle can be checked out like a library book, a liability waiver can be collected at check-out, and the bike can be returned any time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also has net liabilities of 362 million. Times, Sunday Times However, the company collapsed into administration last month, having previously filed accounts showing net liabilities of 8.5 million. Times, Sunday Times A side effect of the pound's fall, by increasing the sterling value of overseas assets, will be to reduce net liabilities further. Times, Sunday Times Labour has net liabilities to the value of 16.6 million. Times, Sunday Times Excluding goodwill, net liabilities were $4.7 million. Times, Sunday Times As sales have plunged, executives have faced debts of 295million, a 58.2million pension liability and onerous leases on hundreds of stores. The Sun Factoring in the group's cash, loan book and pension liability, they put its enterprise value at just 140m. Times, Sunday Times Insiders suggested that the bids reflected suitors' concerns over the leases on six of the group's hotels and a pension liability of almost 17 million. Times, Sunday Times We were hoping that would carry on and be done and there would be no pension liability. Times,Sunday Times Failure to cover that annual bill has already accumulated a public sector pension liability in excess of 800 billion. Times, Sunday Times The patients' passport was a political liability in part because virtually no one who may have benefited from the plan understood it. Times, Sunday Times When close colleagues become a political liability, he stands by them instead of cutting them loose. The Sun None of the major candidates has endorsed the pot initiative because the issue could become a political liability. Times, Sunday Times His tardiness has now become a political liability. Times, Sunday Times For while his age would customarily be deemed a political liability, in these very, very strange times it may well be an asset. Times, Sunday Times Even his biggest legislative success - his hard-earned healthcare reforms - has turned into a potential liability. Times, Sunday Times I am concerned about my potential liability as a director. Times, Sunday Times Agents will be able to evaluate the event and help plan it to reduce risk and limit the potential liability. Christianity Today Where one of those circumstances was a potential liability for compensation, it was hard to see why it should be excluded. Times, Sunday Times In either case, the denomination faces potential liability for acting negligently in its selection decision. Christianity Today Strategies to reduce liability include gifting assets in your lifetime or putting them into trust. Times, Sunday Times Certification not only demonstrates a commitment to the profession but may reduce liability in legal suits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They used tax relief to reduce liability to pay tax. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One part of the process involved paying financial assistance to reduce liability on the company buying some of the shares. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To reduce retirement burdens, some companies have fought to change the inflation link on payouts, which can dramatically reduce liabilities. Times, Sunday Times The other banks involved declined to predict the total liability they would face. Times, Sunday Times They carry nearly 70 billion of capital commitments, and a total liability of well over 200 billion to the taxpayer. Times, Sunday Times In a statement, it said that it did not expect its total liability, including legal costs, to exceed €50 million. Times, Sunday Times Estimates of total liability ran as high as $14 billion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Total liabilities have increased by a third in the space of a year, as quantitative easing sends bond prices higher and yields lower. Times, Sunday Times The total unfunded liability stands at 530 billion. Times, Sunday Times The coalition has uncovered an unfunded liability of 37 billion in the defence budget over the next 10 years, 20 billion of it in the equipment and support programme. Times, Sunday Times Public sector pensions are a huge unfunded liability. Times, Sunday Times If no changes had been made, the unfunded liability would have been $178 million by 2013. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The legislation reduces the state's unfunded liability of nearly $7.3 billion to $4.3 billion, a $3 billion reduction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those cases arose from intentional acts at the workplace (whether horseplay or rather more serious conduct) and did not usually give rise to vicarious liability. Times, Sunday Times On the contrary the approach of the majority applied both to cases of vicarious liability and to direct liability. Times, Sunday Times We knew that the existing interpretation of vicarious liability was a problem. Times,Sunday Times The court concluded that the vicarious liability claim against the school could proceed. Christianity Today But vicarious liability was not in itself a tort. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 累赘 Japanese: 不利になるもの |
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