Would you help me to interprete 'Coaldigger'?
* coaldigger :the opposite of golddigger;
a woman or man who deliberately selects partners whose attractiveness lies in the fact that they are a financial liability
I made an interpretation fot that, a person who selects partners whose have a financial responsibility.
financial liability means 'financial ability'? They are the same meaning?
And in the next e.g sentence,
Kingi's such a coaldigger that even though gets no child support, she doesn't even want her new loser boyfriend to get a job.
I made an interperetation the sentence.
Kingi has a child but gets no child support from government, (is this correct?)
even though she doesn't want her unemployed boyfriend to get a job.
Then, the e.g sentence is so strange, that doesn't make sense, why Kingi is a coaldigger?
coaldigger dosen't matter a partner's financial ability?
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A financial liability is actually the opposite, something that is a threat to your financial situation or stability.
For instance, when someone applies for a loan, the bank reviews the borrowers assets and liabilities before making a decision. Assets are things such as houses or other properties that the person owns and that the bank can take possession of if the loan isn't paid back.
The liabilities are things that limit or could prevent the person from paying back the loan. So, if the person already has a mortgage on a house and he borrowed $1M to buy that house, he is *liable* to the bank for the $1M. So, even if the house is destroyed and it no longer has value, he still has to pay back the $1M. The mortgage is a liability.
So, back to Kingi... :) Correct. She's not receiving financial assistance from either the father of the child or the government.
So in a general sense, the sentence seems to equate "coaldiggers" to those who gravitate towards partners who perpetuate financial instability.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coaldigger
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