| 单词 | dereliction |
| 释义 | dereliction (once / 10965 pages) n Dereliction is a word for neglecting responsibilities. Failing to care for your family or do your job are examples of dereliction. If you are letting things go, you are engaged in dereliction. Not mowing your lawn is an example of dereliction; so is not feeding your children. Someone can be fired for dereliction of duty, meaning they have failed to do their job. Dereliction is the opposite of diligence, a quality of people who are hard-working. It might help you to remember this word if you know that homeless people are sometimes called derelicts, implying that they are not able to care for themselves. WORD FAMILYdereliction: derelictions USAGE EXAMPLESDonald Trump promised to reverse that dereliction and bring industry back to America. BBC(Dec 23, 2016) If the regulations were not enforced, would workers fear being retaliated against for disclosing that dereliction of duty? Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) The Port Authority said Wednesday its commander was reassigned in November after a review and all 44 dereliction cases are pending. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1n willful negligence Hypo|Hyper nonfeasance a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct activity that transgresses moral or civil law carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformancefailure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances 2n a tendency to be negligent and uncaring his derelictions were not really intended as crimes Syn|Hyper delinquency, willful neglect neglect, neglectfulness, negligence the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern |
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