Usually means: Unintended events causing harm, damage.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word accidents:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidents: Merriam-Webster
  2. accidents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. accidents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Accidents, accident's, accidents: Wordnik
  5. accidents: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. accidents: Wiktionary
  7. accidents: Dictionary.com
  8. accidents: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Accidents: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Accidents: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidents: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Accidents: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accidents: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidents: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Accidents: Merck Manuals
  3. Health insurance (No longer online)
  4. Accidents: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accidents: Idioms

(Note: See accident as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Accident)

noun:  An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
noun:  (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
noun:  (transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
noun:  Any chance event.
noun:  (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
noun:  Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
noun:  (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
noun:  (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
noun:  Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
noun:  (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
noun:  (derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
noun:  (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
noun:  (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
noun:  (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
adjective:  (transport) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
noun:  A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
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