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

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. negligence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. negligence: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. NEGLIGENCE: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. Negligence (law), negligence: Legal dictionary
  14. Negligence (law), negligence: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Negligence (law), negligence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  4. Negligence (law), negligence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Negligence: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See negligences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state of being negligent.
noun:  (law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
noun:  (law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.

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