Both Uses of
liability
in
Anna Karenina
- For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement.
Part 3 *liability = financial obligation
- It was the consciousness of a new sphere of liability to pain.†
Part 7 *
Definitions:
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(liability as in: liabilities on the balance sheet) the cash value that an accountant would place on things that are owed; or the things owed
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(liability as in: she is a liability to our cause) any negative trait or thing that creates a problem