BREACH OF DUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breach of duty mean? 

• BREACH OF DUTY (noun)
  The noun BREACH OF DUTY has 1 sense:

1. a breach of due care

  Familiarity information: BREACH OF DUTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREACH OF DUTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A breach of due care

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("breach of duty" is a kind of...):

breach (a failure to perform some promised act or obligation)

 Context examples 

No doubt you thought that your breach of duty could never be discovered, and yet a mere glance at that drugget was enough to convince me that someone had been admitted to the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)