Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Jointly responsible or liable: Refers to a situation where multiple parties share legal or moral responsibility for an action or outcome.
   • Interconnected / Interrelated: Describes a state where elements are connected in such a way that they affect each other; involving mutual involvement or consequence.

2. Verb (less common):

   • To involve jointly: The act of making parties share in a responsibility or consequence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Các bên ký kết phải chịu trách nhiệm liên đới. (The signing parties bear joint liability.)
  • Vấn đề kinh tế và xã hội có mối quan hệ liên đới. (Economic and social issues have an interrelated relationship.)
• Verb:
  • Phán quyết liên đới tất cả các bị cáo. (The verdict jointly involves all the defendants.)

Advanced Usage

• Legal Context: Often used in legal and contractual language to describe "joint and several liability," where each party can be held responsible for the full obligation.
  • Trách nhiệm liên đới của các thành viên hợp danh. (The joint and several liability of the general partners.)

Variants and Related Words

• Liên đới trách nhiệm (n): Joint liability.
  • Nguyên tắc liên đới trách nhiệm được áp dụng. (The principle of joint liability is applied.)

Synonyms

• Joint: Shared by multiple parties.
• Interrelated: Mutually connected.
• Solidary (in legal contexts): Presenting or involving joint solidarity, especially in liabilities.

Related Idioms

• Chịu trách nhiệm liên đới: To bear joint responsibility.
  • Cả nhóm phải chịu trách nhiệm liên đới về thất bại. (The whole group must bear joint responsibility for the failure.)