financial obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffinancialandobligation
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financial
adjective
uk/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/us/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
relating to money or how money ...
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obligation
noun
uk/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the fact that you are obliged to ...
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(Definition offinancialandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Fathers are said to have responsibility for the care and financial support of their children but discourse focuses almost exclusively on theirfinancialobligation.
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Faced with his non-paternity, he petitioned the court to curtail hisfinancialobligationto the child.
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What we have tried to do is not to fulfil anyfinancialobligation, but to pay sums of money calculated and intended to relieve hardship.
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That involves a legalfinancialobligationwhich does not exist in this case.
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Generally speaking, we think that the industries should work under thisfinancialobligation.
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No specialfinancialobligationarises from the giving of this direction.
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Why did they contract out of any kind offinancialobligation?
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There is nofinancialobligation, the accompanying statement is not printed in account.
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It would effectively relieve the commission of anyfinancialobligationat all.
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It also covers the obtaining of services by deception in order to avoid payment and generally using deception to evade meeting somefinancialobligation.
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We believe that biological parents have an inescapablefinancialobligationto the children whom they bring into the world.
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I do not know what thefinancialobligationis.
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Could not the actualfinancialobligationresting upon the shoulders of the taxpayers of this country be reduced in some way?
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However, we are talking about thefinancialobligation.
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That would be afinancialobligationon the public purse which would remain in perpetuity.
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The court would be able to waive the local authority'sfinancialobligationif it is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to make it pay.
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One was to provide an adequate service and the other was thefinancialobligation.
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Any furtherfinancialobligationmust be taken off the board's profits, which are under examination.
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Neither are we under anyfinancialobligationto either of them.
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What we want is that the extension of public control should be proportionate to the extension of publicfinancialobligation.
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