Negligence
['neglɪdʒ(ə)ns] or ['nɛɡlɪdʒəns]
Definition
(noun.) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.
(noun.) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
(n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
(n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Neglect (as a habit), carelessness, thoughtlessness, remissness, heedlessness, disregard, inattention, LACHES.
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Definition
n. fact or quality of being negligent: want of proper care: habitual neglect: a single act of carelessness or neglect a slight: carelessness about dress manner &c.: omission of duty esp. such care for the interests of others as the law may require—(Shak.) Neglec′tion.—adj. Neg′ligent neglecting: careless: inattentive: disregarding ceremony or fashion.—adv. Neg′ligently.—adj. Neg′ligible.—adv. Neg′ligibly.
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Examples
- The teeth, through negligence and ignorance, receive less attention among the majority of people than any other subject of a personal character. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In so valuable a produce, the loss occasioned by negligence is so great, as to force even the most careless to attention. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Perhaps it is only negligence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- After entertaining company, when dinner was over he would go out to correct any negligence in the service with a leather thong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They amended and reconstructed, they had their fashions and their phases of negligence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears! Jane Austen. Emma.
- If it is very much overpaid, it is apt to suffer, perhaps still more, by their negligence and idleness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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