Usually means: Failure to exercise reasonable care.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. contributory negligence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. contributory negligence: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contributory negligence: Vocabulary.com
  4. contributory negligence: Wordnik
  5. contributory negligence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contributory negligence: Wiktionary
  7. contributory negligence: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. contributory negligence: Dictionary.com
  9. Contributory negligence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. contributory negligence: Rhymezone
  11. contributory negligence: FreeDictionary.org
  12. contributory negligence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. contributory negligence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. contributory negligence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. contributory negligence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. contributory negligence: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. contributory negligence: Legal dictionary
  8. contributory negligence: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contributory negligence: Encyclopedia

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  1. contributory negligence: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contributory negligence)

noun:  (law) The rule of law under which an act or omission of plaintiff is a contributing cause of injury and a possible bar to a complete recovery.

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