Definition of "neglect"

neglect

/nɪˈɡlɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present neglects, present participle neglecting, simple past and past participle neglected
1. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
  Quotations
  I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
  c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]
  This, my long sufferance and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste.
  1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. […] But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
  2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
2. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
3. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
  Quotations
  A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
  1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22
4. (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural neglects
1. The act of neglecting.
2. The state of being neglected.
3. Habitual lack of care.

Definition of "neglect"

neglect

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