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What does disability mean?

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

Noun
  1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
  2. A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.
  3. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
  4. (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
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An accident of birth like ethnic origins, or an illness or disability or sexual preference, have been endowed with tremendous significance.
A woman on disability benefits narrowly missed being hurt by a youth firing an air rifle.
However, the customer is lying down as a result of a disability rather than alcoholic consumption.
And Diamond got a chance to reach for the stars after Miami inventor Ivan Yaeger heard about her disability.
She says he then lectured them about disability and said the wheelchairs are for disabled people only.
Demands are made on parents relinquish custody of their disabled child in return for funding for support services for a disability.

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