Usually means: Neglect of duty or responsibility.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dereliction: Merriam-Webster
  2. dereliction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dereliction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dereliction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dereliction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dereliction, dereliction: Wordnik
  7. dereliction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dereliction: Wiktionary
  9. dereliction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dereliction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dereliction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dereliction: Dictionary.com
  13. Dereliction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dereliction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dereliction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dereliction: Rhymezone
  17. Dereliction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dereliction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. dereliction: FreeDictionary.org
  20. dereliction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dereliction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. dereliction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. dereliction: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. dereliction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. dereliction: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  6. dereliction: Legal dictionary
  7. dereliction: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dereliction: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See derelictions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Willful neglect of one's duty.
noun:  The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
noun:  Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.

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