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limited-liability

a. (context legal English) Of a business entity, having liability for legal claims that is limited to the assets of the entity itself, and which therefore does not reach the assets of the individual owners/investors of the company.

Usage examples of "limited-liability".

Yemen is one of the few countries to implement traditional Sunni shari'a law and a limited-liability company scam at the same time.

A Pirie became a limited-liability company in 1882, merged with another firm in 1922, and went out of business at some point in the 1950s.