disregard1 verbdisregard2 noun
disregarddis‧re‧gard1 /ˌdɪsrɪˈɡɑːd $ -ɑːrd/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
VERB TABLE
disregard
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | disregard |
| he, she, it | disregards | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disregarded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disregarded |
| he, she, it | has disregarded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disregarded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disregard |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disregarded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am disregarding |
| he, she, it | is disregarding | |
| you, we, they | are disregarding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was disregarding |
| you, we, they | were disregarding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disregarding |
| he, she, it | has been disregarding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disregarding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disregarding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disregarding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- By disregarding speed limits and passing red lights, we somehow got to the airport in time.
- Marlow sometimes disregards the law, but his aim is always justice.
- Please disregard any notes written in the margins.
- For all the lucrative prospects, owners could not disregard the risks.
- It disregards entirely the far more effective role of democratic self-government at the state and local levels.
- The fear is that women who have a negative mammogram will disregard contrary evidence such as feeling a lump, Bredt said.
- They were so keen to get to grips with the enemy that they disregarded much of the training in stealth and guile.
- This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.
- Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest.
Longman Language Activatorto not obey a rule or law
to not obey a law or rule: · Protesters disobeyed the law and blocked the city's main roads.· Troops openly disobeyed orders, refusing to use force against their own people.
to not do what a rule or law says you must do: · Students who break the rules and smoke in school will be suspended.· I do not want my sons' TV role models to be tough, cool guys, who break laws and kill people. break the law: · If you fail to buy a ticket before you get on the train, you are breaking the law.
formal to disobey or do something that is against a rule, agreement, principle etc: · This action violated the constitution and the Civil Rights Act.· Police have arrested twenty people, accused of violating a ban on demonstrations.
also ignore to pay no attention to a law, rule, or to what someone has told you to do, and behave as if it does not affect you. Disregard is more formal than ignore: · Many cyclists ignore the law and ride around at night without lights.· I tell her to come home by 10 o'clock, but she just ignores me.· Marlow sometimes disregards the law, but his aim is always justice.· By disregarding speed limits and passing red lights, we somehow got to the airport in time.
formal to break a particular written law, rule, or agreement: · The sale of untreated milk may contravene public health regulations.· If a licence holder contravenes any of these conditions, their licence will be withdrawn.
: flout a rule/law etc to deliberately break a law or a rule, especially because you think it is unnecessary or stupid: · Many bar owners flout the laws on under-age drinking.· Thousands of people are killed on our roads every year, yet a majority of us insist on flouting speed limits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flagrant disregard for the law a reckless disregard for safety
to ignore something or treat it as unimportant: (=not do what someone tells you)· The accident happened because she ignored their advice.
a flagrant disregard for the law a reckless disregard for safety He ordered the jury to disregard the witness’s last statement. Mark totally disregarded my advice.disregard1 verbdisregard2 noun
disregarddisregard2 noun [singular, uncountable] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- You have shown a total disregard for the law and for public safety.
- Agricultural subsidies and a thoughtless disregard for natural processes are washing away the commonwealth of land, its soils and wildlife.
- But however can one conceive of this happening without a total disregard for humanity?
- Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.
- The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard.
- Will we display more of the statesmanship, selflessness, and disregard for monetary advantage associated with public service and professional responsibility?
- Yevdoxia revealed the same blend of feelings: the two women had a healthy disregard for each other.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Local councillors accused the terrorists of showing a complete disregard for human life.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a flagrant disregard for the law a reckless disregard for safetyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
when someone ignores something that they should not ignoredisregard for/of Local councillors accused the terrorists of showing a complete disregard for human life. (=not do what someone tells you)· The accident happened because she ignored their advice.
a flagrant disregard for the law a reckless disregard for safety· He led a rather monastic, reclusive lifestyle and displayed a complete disregard for personal gain.· The whole beauty of the trading floor was its complete disregard for tenure.
· Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety.· Others are sponsored by ambitious federal agencies, sometimes with total disregard for the recommendations of other arms of government.· It suddenly occurred to her that total disregard of her escapade was a very subtle punishment indeed.· She withdrew more and more completely, and displayed total disregard for her own well-being.· But however can one conceive of this happening without a total disregard for humanity?· The total disregard for law and order made it difficult to identify which attacks were political and which were not.
VERB· But by marginalising its rusticity thus, Emmerdale's producers showed a disregard for what people want from their televisual Yorkshire.· It all looks simple on paper, but weathered roads show blatant disregard for the intentions of cartographers.· He was careless of his own safety and showed wanton disregard for everyone else.· Seniors and the disabled also have complained that some skateboarders show disregard for pedestrians.
his disregard for her feelingstotal/reckless/complete/flagrant etc disregard Local councillors accused the terrorists of showing a complete disregard for human life.in disregard of something He said the bombing was in complete disregard of the Geneva Convention.