Usually means: Failure to provide necessary care.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word neglect:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. neglect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. neglect: Merriam-Webster
  3. neglect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. neglect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. neglect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. neglect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Neglect, neglect: Wordnik
  8. neglect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. neglect: Wiktionary
  10. neglect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. neglect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. neglect: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. neglect: Dictionary.com
  14. neglect (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. neglect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Neglect (English law), Neglect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Neglect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. neglect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. neglect: Rhymezone
  20. neglect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. neglect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. neglect: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. neglect: FreeDictionary.org
  24. neglect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. neglect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. neglect: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. neglect: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. neglect: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Neglect: Merck Manuals
  3. Neglect: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  5. neglect: Medical dictionary
  6. Neglect: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglect: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neglect: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
verb:  (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
noun:  The act of neglecting.
noun:  The state of being neglected.
noun:  Habitual lack of care.

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