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What does liable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word liable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
  2. subject; susceptible.
  3. exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
  4. (as predicate, with "to" and an infinitive) likely.
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Does that cover a person adjudged liable to pay a pecuniary penalty in a civil action?
If so, he also may be liable for state and local income taxes, which combined amount to a rate of 10.44 per cent.
If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff.
Abstract nouns are all liable to be hijacked and twisted, by people of all political ideas.
The trial judge held the defendants liable for failing to close down that part of the factory.
We went to the council but they said the tree was not diseased, they were not liable and what happened was an act of God.

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