Meaning of disabled in English

disabled
adjective
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/dɪˈseɪ.bəld/ us
/dɪˈseɪ.bəld/
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having an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult to do some things that other people do:
The accident left him severely disabled.
B1 [ before noun ]
relating to or intended for disabled people:
The library does not have disabled access.
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disabled
noun [ plural ]
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/dɪˈseɪ.bəld/ us
/dɪˈseɪ.bəld/
 the disabled
offensive
disabled people as a group. This term is now considered offensive, and people usually prefer to say people with disabilities or disabled people.
(Definition of disabled from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

disabled | American Dictionary

disabled
adjective
us
/dɪsˈeɪ·bəld/
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lacking one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have:
a disabled war veteran
US law requires that all public buildings be accessible to the disabled.
They opened a group home for mentally disabled adults.
(Definition of disabled from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

disabled | Business English

disabled
adjective
uk
/dɪˈseɪbld/ us
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not having one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have:
disabled customers.
Many meat packing workers say the work is so physically hard that they become disabled after only a few years.
[ before noun ]
relating to or intended for disabled people:
disabled access/facilities/parking The factory has very limited disabled access.
disabled
noun
uk
/dɪˈseɪbld/ us
 the disabled [ plural ]
people who are disabled:
He went on to invent 250 other products for the disabled, including eating and drinking aids and wheelchair gadgets.
(Definition of disabled from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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in Chinese (Traditional)
殘疾的，喪失能力的, 殘疾人士的, 殘疾人士用的…
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残疾的，丧失能力的, 残疾人的, 残疾人用的…
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discapacitado, discapaditado/da [masculine-feminine]…
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deficiente, deficiente [masculine-feminine]…
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心身障害の, 障（しょう）がいのある…
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özürlü, sakat…
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handicapé/-ée, handicapé…
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disabile, invalido…
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