The meaning of Dereliction

noun

The action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned.

Usage examples:

She had a feeling of utter abandonment and loneliness

noun

Failure to give sufficient attention to avoiding harm or errors; negligence.

Usage examples:

Most road accidents are caused by carelessness on the part of motorists

noun

The fact of not taking or showing enough care and attention

Usage examples:

Most of the forest fires this spring were caused by human carelessness., a moment of carelessness c…

noun

The state of being decrepit.

Usage examples:

He had passed directly from middle age into decrepitude

noun

The fact of being in very bad condition because of being old, or not having been cared for, or having been used a lot

Usage examples:

A state of decrepitude, her mother was in the final stages of senile decrepitude.

noun

Minor crime, especially that committed by young people.

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Social causes of crime and delinquency

noun

Illegal or unacceptable behavior

Usage examples:

Efforts to combat juvenile delinquency

noun

A situation in which tax or borrowed money is not paid or paid back when it should be

Usage examples:

The consumer loan delinquency rate has increased 33%., mortgage/tax delinquency

noun

The action of deserting a person, cause, or organization.

Usage examples:

I resented what i saw as my parents' desertion

noun

The process of becoming progressively worse.

Usage examples:

A deterioration in the condition of the patient

noun

The process or fact of becoming worse

Usage examples:

We cannot allow continued deterioration of our production standards., a deterioration in retail sal…

noun

The state or process of falling into decay or being in disrepair.

Usage examples:

The mill was in a state of dilapidation

noun

The state of being old and in poor condition

Usage examples:

The farmhouse fell into a state of dilapidation., the theatre is being restored to its former glory…

noun

Poor condition of a building or structure due to neglect.

Usage examples:

The station gradually fell into disrepair

noun

The state of being broken or old and needing to be repaired

Usage examples:

The building had fallen into disrepair over the years.

noun

The state of not being used.

Usage examples:

His voice was croaky with disuse

noun

The condition of not being used (any longer)

Usage examples:

The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.

noun

Lack of success.

Usage examples:

An economic policy that is doomed to failure

verb

Abandon or leave.

Usage examples:

He would never forsake tara

Present participle of forsake literary or formal

noun

Lack of a proper sense of responsibility.

Usage examples:

They thought that having children was an act of irresponsibility

noun

The quality of not thinking or worrying enough about the possible results of what you do

Usage examples:

It was an act of gross irresponsibility to leave someone who wasn't properly trained in charge of t…

noun

Lack of strictness or care.

Usage examples:

The result of such fiscal laxity is a budget deficit

noun

Behaviour that shows little care, attention, or control

Usage examples:

The laxity of prison officers made it easy for the men to get away., an atmosphere of laxity by som…

adjective

Lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough

Usage examples:

Security at the airport seemed lax., laxity in enforcing safety regulations can cost lives.

noun

Unacceptable or improper behaviour, especially by an employee or professional person.

Usage examples:

She was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal and dismissed

verb

Behave in an improper manner.

Usage examples:

The committee reprimanded two members who were found to have misconducted themselves

noun

Wrong or immoral behavior of someone in a position of authority or responsibility

Usage examples:

Criminal misconduct, official misconduct

verb

Fail to care for properly.

Usage examples:

The old churchyard has been sadly neglected

noun

The state of being uncared for.

Usage examples:

The place had a hopeless air of neglect

noun

Failure to take proper care over something.

Usage examples:

His injury was due to the negligence of his employers

noun

Failure to give enough care or attention to someone or something that you are responsible for

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Alleged/criminal/professional negligence she is claiming damages for alleged negligence in the hand…

noun

The fact of not giving enough care or attention to someone or something

Usage examples:

Medical negligence

noun

A failure to do a piece of work or an activity

Usage examples:

They were sued for non-performance of services., there is a valid excuse for the nonperformance of …

noun

A person or thing that has been left out or excluded.

Usage examples:

There are glaring omissions in the report

noun

The fact of not including something that should have been included, or the thing that is not included

Usage examples:

We are not responsible for the omission of information from this website., the document contained a…

noun

An unintentional failure to notice or do something.

Usage examples:

He had simply missed parsons out by an oversight

noun

A mistake caused by a failure to notice or do something

Usage examples:

Because of a bank oversight, the money had not been credited to my account., the fbi provided techn…

noun

Systems or actions to control an activity and make sure that it is done correctly and legally

Usage examples:

In commodity trading, key goods such as oil or uranium are traded with almost no oversight., govern…

noun

The dismissing or refusing of a proposal, idea, etc.

Usage examples:

The union decided last night to recommend rejection of the offer

noun

The act or process of rejecting someone or something

Usage examples:

[ u ] fear of rejection, [ c ] i applied for ten jobs and got ten rejections.

noun

The act of refusing to accept an idea, suggestion, proposal, etc.

Usage examples:

The company's rejection of the proposal came as a total surprise., i've applied for loads of jobs a…

noun

The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.

Usage examples:

A large white house falling into gentle ruin

verb

Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

Usage examples:

The castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers

verb

To spoil or destroy something

Usage examples:

It would be a shame to ruin such a beautiful place., that guy isn’t going to ruin my life.

noun

The state of being slower and less active than usual

Usage examples:

Low sales figures were partly because of normal mid-summer slackness in/of demand., the inspector c…

noun

Lack of care and organization; excessive casualness.

Usage examples:

The task is to expose intellectual sloppiness and fraud

noun

The quality of being messy or done in a careless way

Usage examples:

Such remarkable sloppiness was the result of too much hurry.

abbreviation

Denoting quantum states or wave functions which change sign on inversion through the origin.

symbol

(in units of measurement) micro- (10−6).

Usage examples:

Direct read-out of concentration in ug or mg/l

noun

The twenty-first letter of the alphabet.