disability

Noun

disability (plural disabilities)

1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

   Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. -Milton.

   Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. -Bancroft.

2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.

   The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. -Abbott.

10 letters in word "disability": A B D I I I L S T Y.

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• Definitions:
• A physical or mental incapacity, either congenital or resulting from an injury or illness etc.
• Loss or lack of normal ability of an individual to move himself/herself and /or objects from one place to another.
• A condition that curtails to some degree a person's ability to carry on his normal pursuits. A disability may be partial or total, and temporary or permanent.
• A substantial disruption of a person's ability to conduct normal life functions.
• Inability to carry on in one's normal occupation due to accident or sickness.
• A limitation of an employee's wage earning capacity in work suitable to his or her qualifications and training, resulting from a personal injury or work related disease. The establishment of disability does not create a presumption of wage loss.
• In the legal sense, lack of legal capacity to perform some act. Used in a physical sense in connection with workers' compensation acts and is a composite of (a) actual incapacity to perform employment tasks and the wage loss resulting therefrom and (b) physical bodily impairment which may or may ...
• means cause for a protective order as described by § 62-5-401 which states Upon petition and after notice and hearing in accordance with the provisions of this part, the court may appoint a conservator or make other protective order for cause as follows:
• An individual's physical or mental inability to perform the major duties of his or her occupation because of sickness or injury.
• A physical or mental impairment, which substantially limits one or more major life activities. Impairments include any psychological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement or anatomical loss affecting one or more systems of the body or any mental or psychological disorder such as mental ...
• In its legal use, this means physical or mental disablement that, in the opinion of the Court, results in a person lacking, wholly or partly, the competence to manage his/her affairs in relation to his/her property.
• As defined by the US Census, disability is a long-lasting physical, mental, or emotional condition. This condition can make it difficult for a person to do activities such as walking, climbing stairs, dressing, bathing, learning, or remembering. ...
• categories are consistent with those used by other organisations in respect of HE students. In 1994/95, the first year of collection, institutions not already collecting this data were given the option of stating that it was not known whether or not the student had a disability, and as a result ...
• in respect of a worker means a work-related incapacity as determined by the board, and includes post-traumatic stress, a permanent impairment, and death;
• A medical condition or injury that prevents the individual from performing his or her duties
• A physical or mental condition that substantially limits one or more major life activities. There are several definitions of disability in the law. ...
• The number of people in a year whose ability to perform major daily activities such as working, housekeeping, and going to school is limited and reduced over long periods because of a disease.
• The Canadian Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) defines a person as disabled if their “everyday activities are limited because of a health-related condition or problem”
• Being unable to gain employment due to mental or physical impairment.
• Legally, this means a condition that prevents someone from performing all of their usual physical or mental functions.
• Mexico does not conform to the United States' American Disabilities Act ,therefore, facilities for disabled persons are limited in Mexico.
• The term “child with a disability” means a child with mental retardation, hearing impairments (including deafness), speech or language impairments, visual impairments (including blindness), emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairments, autism, traumatic brain injury, other health ...
• Any temporary or long term condition (physical and/or mental) that results from an acute or chronic condition that may prevent the performance of regular duties.
• Refers to some condition (infancy, insanity, incompetence) which the law recognizes as a basis for allowing a statute of limitations to be tolled or extended to some degree. ...
• a physical or mental impairment that constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment
• the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment"
• A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or their group. ...

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