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How to pronounce “disability”
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Pronunciation guide for disability
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of disability with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Off-Broadway's Addy & Uno
ANASTASIA: Because he has a disability
- Definition summary
- (countable, medical model of disability) A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
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How to pronounce disability
Off-Broadway's Addy & Uno
ANASTASIA: Because he has a disability
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “disability”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable, medical model of disability) A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
- (uncountable) The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
- (countable, social model of disability) A limitation in function (the things that a person can do or achieve) that is driven by any combination of their impairments (the medical facts about them) and the imperfect state of society's inaccessibility that sometimes fails to accommodate their needs.
- (countable, obsolete) An inability.
- (countable, law) A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
- (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.
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