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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)play

  Familiarity information: CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE (noun)


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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