noun
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The act of neglecting.
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The state of being neglected.
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Habitual lack of care.
verb
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To fail to care for or attend to something.
example
to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts
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To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
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to neglect strangers
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To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
Examples of neglect in a Sentence
If you neglect to do so, we will be gone before you arrive.
In order to keep a tidy kitchen, do not neglect to wash your dishes.
The climate is naturally good, but continued neglect of sanitary precautions has made the city unhealthy.
The apparatus needs constant attention, since neglect in stoking would result in stopping the generation of steam, and the whole system would almost immediately cool.
A woman was recently put in jail for child neglect, after leaving her children alone for days.
The Scottish sovereigns, however, did not wholly neglect Dumfries.
As a classical scholar, his scorn of littlenesses sometimes led him into the neglect of minutiae, but he had the higher merit of interpreting ideas.
Some excuse is to be made for this neglect.
The shepherd made good all loss due to his neglect.
This intermediate or wavering position accounts for the comparative neglect into which his works have now fallen.
The neglect of aged persons is extremely rare.
The elderly woman's children wanted to make sure she was placed in a facility that would care for her, not neglect her needs.
The restoration of goods appropriated, illegally bought or damaged by neglect, was usually accompanied by a fine, giving it the form of multiple restoration.
It is probable that in the neglect of the grantees to give proper leases to their tenants arose the Ulster tenant-right custom which attracted so much notice in more modern times.
Neglect of many other parts of the pilgrim ceremonial may be compensated by offerings, but to miss the "stand" (woquf) at Arafa is to miss the pilgrimage.
The neglect of these facts has led to many errors in estimating the mean rainfall on watershed areas from the fall observed at gauges in particular parts of those areas.
Though his life was worldly, and though he was more soldier and statesman than priest, the "Great Cardinal," as he was commonly called, did not neglect his duty as a bishop. He used his influence with the queen and also at Rome to arrange a settlement of the disputes between the Spanish sovereigns and the papacy.
The great fault is the neglect of the vast quantities of state papers in the British Museum.
He was already an elderly man, with a firmly established reputation, when he became a bishop. As an ecclesiastical statesman he showed the same fiery zeal and versatility of which he had given proof in his academical career; but the general tendency of modern writers has been to exaggerate his political and ecclesiastical services, and to neglect his performances as a scientist and scholar.
Much indignation was provoked by tha sight of the king kept continually in ward by his privy councilors and treated with systematic neglect; but the treatment of his son was even more resented.
After residence in the state for three years divorce may be obtained on grounds of fraudulent contract, desertion, neglect for three years, adultery, cruelty, intemperance, imprisonment for life and certain crimes.
Nor did Joachim neglect other opportunities for adding to his wealth and possessions.
The instrument subsequently fell into complete neglect for nearly two centuries, to be revived in 1852 by Charles Wheatstone, who has stated that he had previously studied the problem; the publication of his views in his second great paper "On Binocular Vision," 1 in the Phil.
I'd temporarily forgotten she knew our whereabouts in Keene from my neglect in using an unsecured phone.
Sitting around and waiting for him to initiate the discussion was a continuation of the neglect he had already been experiencing.
So I find it totally abhorrent and incomprehensible when I hear about the dreadful cruelty and neglect inflicted on some animals.
There's nothing worse than a real ale which has sat in the pipes or gone off due to neglect.
It needn't be a time for self neglect or to become ' the invisible woman ' doomed to wear beige for ever more.
It takes time to reverse decades of neglect and under-investment.
Hill sheep in particular suffer great deprivation mainly from neglect.
Even places that looked new and shiny when I first saw them are now looking a bit grim after a quarter century of neglect.
It is an offense to delay or obstruct an inspector from OPRA or to neglect or refuse to produce required documentation or information.
To add to the mayhem, is the total neglect of vital micronutrients so essential to the release of energy from bodily stores.
We measured the auditory midline of ten patients exhibiting unilateral neglect as assessed by standard visual tests.
No-one is suggesting that you neglect women in order to read the latest missive from the Department of Health.
There are certain neighborhoods where whole communities have suffered neglect on a massive scale.
The second issue for Labor that electoral reform helps is the perceived neglect of our core voters.
To remedy the neglect of small settlements which is such a characteristic of segregation research in the world outside Northern Ireland.
We did not omit the work of Birmingham on grounds of spite or wilful neglect.
Section 1.4 The Technological Long Term Unlike the traditional archive, digital material cannot be the subject of benign neglect.
Streets of fear are being created by a combination of destructive policies and willful neglect.
Factors of interest Unilateral spatial neglect is a commonly occurring disorder following stroke.
New Criticismliterary criticism " is far less connected with historical issues, although most do not neglect it completely.
Here too we express penitence both for our neglect and for having sometimes regarded evangelism and social concern as mutually exclusive.
This does not imply that systematic reviewers should neglect reports in LOE.
But if you're detecting spam, please don't neglect - or forget - that which is not.
They do not use winter tares for soiling, which is a barbarous neglect.
In the case of shops, designers should resist the tendency to neglect all that occurs above the fascia.
If this hypothesis is true, then unilateral neglect should be improved by increasing activation of the sustained attention system.
It is often prompted by neglect, often wilful, which has brought a building to a critical state.