future liability

collocation in English

meaningsoffutureandliability

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future
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfjuː.tʃər/us
/ˈfjuː.tʃɚ/
happening or existing in ...
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liability
noun
uk
/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact that someone is legally responsible ...
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(Definition offutureandliabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffuture liability

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A constant watch was kept to prevent servants staying a full year, while tenants taking on apprentices were immediately asked to stand surety for anyfutureliabilityto the parish.
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It has now placed itsfutureliabilityfairly and squarely on the shoulders of the contributors.
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They might say they were going to be subject to somefutureliability, and they might try to stop the right of way.
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The fact is, that it is not a question of afutureliability; it is a question of a past liability.
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What is thefutureliability, or the amount which will have to be dispersed?
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He admitted that the problems would lead to some high-tech companies having to assess the unpredictablefutureliabilityof employees' national insurance contributions.
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If there is to be a change of law in regard to civil claims, it must take into account thefutureliability.
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Once handed over, there should be nofutureliabilityfar repair at all.
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That is properly regarded as a simple cost of operation and does not need to form afutureliability.
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We need a rethink of the whole basis of the assessment of schemes and theirfutureliability.
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When is thatfutureliability, to be incurred over so long a period, really going to press on the national finances?
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When the charge remains to be paid in the future, the buyers of property naturally take into account, in deciding what they will pay, thefutureliability.
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That is an extraordinary feature of our economy, because the exchange risk has to be covered by selling sterling forward against dollars, which is afutureliability.
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Back service refers to the number of years the employee has served the employer, but the lump sum that is paid for back service is to cover afutureliability.
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This is afutureliability.
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