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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonperformance

Nonperformance \Non`per*form"ance\, n. Neglect or failure to perform.

Wiktionary
nonperformance

n. A failure to perform a task, especially a task that one was legally bound to do.

WordNet
nonperformance

n. failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: negligence, carelessness, neglect]

Usage examples of "nonperformance".

And when the rewards go to nonperformance, to flattery, or to mere cleverness, the organization will soon decline into nonperformance, flattery, or cleverness.

If one overbalances the other, there is only nonperformance and all-around frustration.

I had performed no heroic measures, the ones that, bright with prudence, you wisely do not perform in the daytime but whose nonperformance terrorizes your conscience following the arrival of dusk.

With reference to army discipline, orders were continually being issued to inflict severe punishment for the nonperformance of military duties and to suppress robbery.

President is not accountable to any court save that of impeachment either for the nonperformance of his constitutional duties or for the exceeding of his constitutional powers.

Michigan statute which prohibited the stipulation by a company against liability for nonperformance of such duty.

Stilwell certainly lacked the iron control over his feelings that characterized Marshall but the underlying source of the poison was his belief that both British and Chinese had been cowardly in the first Burma campaign and had devoted their energies to nonperformance in Burma ever since.

I entered the schoolroom I overlooked no fault and received no excuse for nonperformance of tasks, my transformation into the friend and playmate, once the lessons were over, was thorough and complete.

So parol evidence would be admissible, no doubt, to enlarge or diminish the extent of the liability assumed for nonperformance, where it would be inadmissible to affect the scope of the promise.