Usually means: Failing to care for properly.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. neglecting: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. neglecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. neglecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Neglecting, neglecting: Wordnik
  5. neglecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. neglecting: Wiktionary
  7. Neglecting, neglecting: Dictionary.com
  8. Neglecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Neglecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. neglecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. neglecting: Free Dictionary
  12. neglecting: Dictionary/thesaurus
  13. neglecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglecting: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglecting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See neglect as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (neglect)

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.
▸ Also see neglect


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