Synonym: disregard, ignore, omit, overlook, pass over, slight. Antonym: endeavor, respect. Similar words: elect, select, lecture, collect, selected, electric, election, selection. Meaning: [nɪ'glekt] 
n. 1. lack of attention and due care 2. the state of something that has been unused and neglected 3. willful lack of care and attention 4. the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern 5. failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances. v. 1. leave undone or leave out 2. fail to do something; leave something undone 3. fail to attend to 4. give little or no attention to.
n. 1. lack of attention and due care 2. the state of something that has been unused and neglected 3. willful lack of care and attention 4. the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern 5. failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances. v. 1. leave undone or leave out 2. fail to do something; leave something undone 3. fail to attend to 4. give little or no attention to. 
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(91) And they neglect an equally dire risk: A minimum wage that is too low leaves people to languish on welfare.
(92) Under recently passed statutes, teachers now also have a duty to report child abuse and neglect.
(93) Those who refused to do so could be removed from office or fined for neglect of duty.
(94) Also the emotional stress placed on families with special-needs children can bring on abuse or neglect.
(95) As far as physical abuse and neglect is concerned, a variety of factors may put a family at risk.
(96) The young girls she treats in alarming numbers are the victims of broken homes and parental neglect.
(97) There is a danger that we neglect a profound study of a main instrument, and end up as mediocrities.
(98) So immersed are many black kids in their sport or sports,[http://sentencedict.com/neglect.html] they sometimes neglect their academic work.
(99) All of them do, if the abuse or neglect results in physical injury.
(100) Given the performance of most bond funds the past three years, perhaps some benign neglect was in order.
(101) Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.
(102) If the Conservative Party generally has suffered from neglect, the Edwardian Conservatives have suffered most.
(103) Your neglect of duty is a matter between you and your employer.
(104) After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes.
(105) Students today can not so easily neglect financial worries as their predecessors twenty years before.
(106) The legislation also provides a deterrent against deliberate neglect of historic buildings.
(107) As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
(108) Social groups which lack the civic skills to represent their own interests are particularly vulnerable to neglect by decentralizing agencies.
(109) Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.
(110) The estates had been neglected in the war and Sharpe had begun the laborious task of repairing the years of neglect.
(111) Its neglect has imperilled both the culture and the respect for social order in many contemporary towns and cities.
(112) Labor experts and activists say child labor is an outgrowth of profound poverty, entrenched cultural habits and decades of government neglect.
(113) The Party's obvious nervousness about railway and other workers and relative neglect of the rural hinterland needs a little more explanation.
(114) The combination of economic crisis with government discrimination and neglect is reflected in the education system.
(115) However, there are no reported cases of a criminal prosecution for failure to report a case of child abuse or neglect.
(116) Last year after a catalogue of neglect was uncovered on his Buckinghamshire farm he was banned from keeping livestock for fifteen years.
(117) Neglect and lack of treatment will eventually result in a coma and possible death.
(118) At its most complex and demanding, involvement may mean taking action to protect a child against cruelty and neglect.
(119) Indeed, after years of benign neglect, the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter's dream.
(120) Consequently, they may neglect the child's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality.
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