| NOUN | act | culpable negligence, criminal negligence | (law) recklessly acting without reasonable / reasonable / reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences) |
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| Meaning | (law) recklessly acting without reasonable / reasonable / reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences). | |
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| Synonym | criminal negligence | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance | failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances |
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