Usually means: Failure to provide necessary care.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. neglect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. neglect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neglect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. neglect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. neglect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Neglect, neglect: Wordnik
  7. neglect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. neglect: Wiktionary
  9. neglect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. neglect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. neglect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. neglect: Dictionary.com
  13. neglect (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. neglect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Neglect (English law), Neglect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Neglect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. neglect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. neglect: Rhymezone
  19. neglect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. neglect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. neglect: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. neglect: Free Dictionary
  23. neglect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. neglect: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. neglect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. neglect: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. neglect: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Neglect: Merck Manuals
  3. Neglect: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  5. neglect: Medical dictionary
  6. Neglect: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglect: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglect: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
verb:  (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
noun:  The act of neglecting.
noun:  The state of being neglected.
noun:  Habitual lack of care.

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