NEGLECT OF DUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neglect of duty mean? 

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

1. (law) breach of a duty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGLECT OF DUTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) breach of a duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("neglect of duty" 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)

 Context examples 

Returning back to his own vessel, he was charged with neglect of duty, and the ship given to a favourite page of Publicola, the vice-admiral; whereupon he retired to a poor farm at a great distance from Rome, and there ended his life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Spare us the enumeration! Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached—mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting—insolence accompanying—mutiny and general blow-up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)