Betekenis van disability In het Nederlands

• 0 an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult for someone to do the things that other people do:

  • a physical/learning disability

  • She is deaf, but refuses to let her disability prevent her from doing what she wants to do.

  • Trying to change attitudes to disability is an uphill struggle.

• 1 a physical or mental condition that makes someone unable to act in a way that is considered usual for most people:

  • [ C ] The law bars discrimination against those with disabilities.

  • [ U ] The regulations apply to people unable to work because of disability.

• 2 an illness, injury, or medical condition that makes it difficult for someone to do the things that other people do:

  • All service providers need to think about how they cater for customers with disabilities.

  • If the injury caused by the job does not qualify as a disability, the employer is not legally obliged to find the employee other work.

  • a physical/mental disability

• 3 the state of having an illness, injury, or medical condition that makes it difficult to do the things that other people do:

  • The law prohibits workplace discrimination against employees because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, age, or national origin.

  • short-term/long-term/permanent disability

  • physical/mental disability

  • disability allowance/claims/compensation

• 4 money that is paid by the government to someone who cannot work because of an illness, injury, or medical condition:

  • Terry used to work in a local factory but is now on disability because of an accident.

  • a disability check