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CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does culpable negligence mean?
• CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE (noun)
The noun CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE has 1 sense:
1. (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
Familiarity information: CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
criminal negligence; culpable negligence
Hypernyms ("culpable negligence" is a kind of...):
carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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