negligence
Meaning of negligence
- The state of being negligent.
- 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.
- 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.
Information about negligence
- It is a name.
- The plural form of negligence is: negligences.
- Languages in which negligence is used:
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Hyphenation of negligence
neg-li-gence
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- negligence is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
negligence synonyms
Meaning carelessness:
carelessness, neglect, nonperformance
Meaning neglect:
Translation of negligence
- Italian: negligenza, abbandono, defezione, diserzione
- German: Nachlässigkeit, Vernachlässigung
- Spanish: negligencia, abandono, descuido, desamparo
- French: négligence, incurie
- Portuguese: negligência
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