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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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Such a delay would leave a child unnecessarily at risk of death and disability from whooping cough and Hib disease.
An accident of birth like ethnic origins, or an illness or disability or sexual preference, have been endowed with tremendous significance.
A prolonged admission is likely to result in profound weakness and physical disability.
A child with a learning disability may have goals in the areas of improving reading and math skills.
She says he then lectured them about disability and said the wheelchairs are for disabled people only.
Despite his disability he helped set up Scotland's first wheelchair rugby team.

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