liabilities

British  

/ ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪz /

plural noun

1. accounting business obligations incurred but not discharged and entered as claims on the assets shown on the balance sheet Compare assets

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Example Sentences

Activities in Ireland and Malta helped trim companies’ tax liabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal

These so-called affiliated investments now amount to an average 76% of surplus, the cushion left over after liabilities are subtracted from assets, A.M.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company attributed about $161.4 million of that to a “revaluation loss from the change in fair-value warrant liabilities” after its stock became more valuable.

From MarketWatch

Now that they are getting record low distributions on these investments, these big institutional investors will have to sell more stocks to generate cash to meet pension liabilities, said Subramanian at Bank of America.

From MarketWatch

With inventories running low, a string of Asian petrochemicals companies have declared force majeure, a way of getting out of contractual liabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal

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