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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neglect
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fail/neglect/omit to mention sth (=deliberately not mention something)
▪ I omitted to mention that I had not been to university.
neglect of duty (=failing to do your job properly)
▪ Six police officers were fired for neglect of duty.
neglect/shirk your duties (=not do your job properly)
▪ No soldier can be allowed to neglect his duties.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
▪ Criminologists, too, have largely neglected the prisons.
▪ If nothing else, the arena is expected to spawn revitalization of a largely neglected area of downtown.
▪ Such basic work, oddly enough, has been largely neglected.
▪ Food production, though largely neglected by the government in the early nineteenth century, remained very important.
▪ This aspect of London speech has also been largely neglected by researchers.
▪ But information responsibility to oneself is still largely neglected.
often
▪ The second part of step two is often neglected by teachers, mainly because it is difficult to obtain accurate information.
▪ Several of them, including Jeffries, often neglected to hand in grades at the end of the term.
▪ Educational practice in this country has acknowledged the cognitive side of learning but has often neglected the affective side.
▪ Freud later developed the technique of free association, a triumph which is often neglected in the discussion of his controversial theories.
▪ Yet, because policymakers often neglect demographics, those who watch them and exploit them can reap great rewards.
▪ Woman-centred feminism often neglects theory in favour of documenting feminine experience.
▪ It begins by looking at the often neglected memorial monument of the civic square and the public place.
▪ Yet in the race to complete as many transactions as possible, the fundamentals were often neglected, with resultant problems later.
■ NOUN
aspect
▪ Bukharin was not one of those who neglected the material aspects of the reproduction schemata.
▪ These neglected aspects weaken attempts to distribute land due to the very low levels of profit from the minifundia.
▪ This neglected aspect of the electronic-publishing debate divides into two quite separate issues.
▪ Furthermore, they have concentrated their attention largely upon economic growth while neglecting other aspects of development.
child
▪ It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated.
▪ Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.
▪ Laws, however much they may help, do not prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring each year.
▪ Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected.
duty
▪ However, unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties.
▪ He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.
▪ As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well.
▪ Will the doctor be neglecting his duty if he respect this patient's expression of will?
▪ Other companies are happy to invest, with the proviso that the government does not neglect its duty.
▪ Ned would never neglect a duty, however tiresome, never put his own comfort first.
▪ You women are neglecting your duty.
fact
▪ If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers.
▪ What with the shower incident and the strain of management I neglected to recall the fact I could not drive.
▪ That is understandable, but it neglects the fact that press freedom is an issue for more than just the press.
▪ Any analysis of human behavior which neglected these facts would be defective indeed.
▪ This neglects the fact that there may be more efficient and effective ways of achieving system objectives which remain unconsidered.
family
▪ In our family the father was some one who neglected his family.
▪ C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.
▪ I had neglected my friends, family, job, social life, virtually everything to do with living a normal life.
▪ Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
▪ She was still reeling from the attention that had come with the Pulitzer and had neglected her family.
issue
▪ For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems, neglecting political and legal issues.
▪ Congress has accused certain agencies of neglecting the issue.
study
▪ Party elders were concerned that the younger generation of intellectuals took no interest in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought and were neglecting their political studies.
▪ Here Rolfe neglected his religious studies and developed his interests in poetry, painting, and photography.
▪ There is a danger that we neglect a profound study of a main instrument, and end up as mediocrities.
work
▪ She'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half.
▪ There were no major cases on hand and he had no excuse for neglecting the routine administrative work.
▪ It was striking that the historical, social and policy implications of language teaching were the areas most neglected in methods work.
▪ So immersed are many black kids in their sport or sports, they sometimes neglect their academic work.
▪ The time for that will come, and must come, for tales have been much neglected in favour of other work and scholarship.
■ VERB
abuse
▪ In the midst of our comfort there are those in our own city who will be forgotten abused or neglected.
▪ Children abused or seriously neglected in childhood often exhibit as adults a sociopathic inability to empathize with other people.
▪ A thousand or more children are being abused or neglected every week - and three or four die every week.
▪ Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.
▪ Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected.
afford
▪ Such a possession, once recognised as it now is, no university can afford to neglect.
▪ Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment, the hard financial investment, stored in our built environment.
feel
▪ Recovery from illness is sometimes avoided by older people, particularly when they feel lonely and neglected.
▪ But some hospitals are short-staffed, and their patients complain of feeling neglected.
▪ She was feeling vulnerable and neglected, he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company.
▪ Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
▪ I feel I've neglected her.
▪ He felt his neglect bitterly, but he was not, essentially, an envious man.
tend
▪ In doing so it has often tended to neglect crucial distinctions between the nature of language and the nature of images.
▪ Men tend to neglect children of their first marriages in favor of the children of their current unions.
▪ Some anglers use three rods, but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected.
▪ Let us be clear about the facts of the election that they tend to neglect.
▪ But this approach tends to neglect the monetary effects of budgetary decisions.
▪ Egalitarian feminist psychology tends to neglect gender issues that do not relate to traditional psychological interest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each year 700,000 children are abused or neglected.
▪ Four security guards were accused of neglecting their duties.
▪ He was neglected by his parents when he was very young.
▪ My career was all-important, and my family got neglected.
▪ Some teachers devote too much time to helping their slower students and neglect the brighter ones.
▪ Soon, Barker was neglecting the farm and spending most of his time in the casino.
▪ Staff at the hostel were accused of neglecting and abusing children in their care.
▪ The President had been criticized for neglecting domestic issues.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Antiracists have pointed out that in privileging prejudice and attitudes the multiculturalists have neglected racism as embedded in structures and institutions.
▪ Most of its partisans had focused mainly on military actions, neglecting political efforts necessary to mobilize mass support.
▪ Some anglers use three rods, but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected.
▪ Students today can not so easily neglect financial worries as their predecessors twenty years before.
▪ This is only true in deep space when the gravitational force can be neglected.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
benign
▪ Indeed, after years of benign neglect, the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter's dream.
▪ Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect.
▪ Where interiors have survived, it has been through benign neglect.
▪ Given the performance of most bond funds the past three years, perhaps some benign neglect was in order.
▪ A decade of benign neglect of energy policies has been abruptly spotlighted in the blockaded streets of London, Brussels and Paris.
▪ Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.
▪ Haass is for the third option. Benign neglect will not be benign, he says.
▪ A policy worthy of the suspicion of benign neglect.
physical
▪ As far as physical abuse and neglect is concerned, a variety of factors may put a family at risk.
▪ As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
▪ Whole generations of children will otherwise be in danger of emotional and physical neglect.
relative
▪ The Party's obvious nervousness about railway and other workers and relative neglect of the rural hinterland needs a little more explanation.
■ VERB
lead
▪ The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities, leading to personal neglect, anti-social behaviour and crime.
suffer
▪ If the Conservative Party generally has suffered from neglect, the Edwardian Conservatives have suffered most.
▪ Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.
▪ Even heat if those radiators which had not been stolen had not suffered by their neglect.
▪ By comparison, companies in the 20-50 jobs bracket suffer from neglect, they say.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cases of child abuse and neglect seem to be increasing in number.
▪ He alleges that the orphanages have allowed children to die from medical neglect.
▪ increases in homelessness, child abuse and neglect
▪ Lieutenant Bradley was demoted to sergeant for neglect of duty.
▪ The inner cities are in a state of neglect.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All these signs, of course, are only indicators that should alert reasonable educators to the possibility of abuse or neglect.
▪ And by the neglect of the long hot summer.
▪ Birds can fly away, but buildings stay to suffer the consequences of environmental neglect.
▪ Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention.
▪ Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land.
▪ She had suffered, she said, from his neglect.
▪ That was a scandalous neglect of the interests of those customers and it will not be repeated under this Government.
▪ This neglect becomes more serious as services becomes more important in the economy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neglect

Neglect \Neg*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neglected; p. pr. & vb. n. Neglecting.] [L. neglectus, p. p. of neglegere (negligere) to disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. being, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, gather. See No, adv., Legend, Who.]

  1. Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to allow to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.

    I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
    --Shak.

    This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
    --Milton.

  2. To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

    Syn: To slight; overlook; disregard; disesteem; contemn. See Slight.

Neglect

Neglect \Neg*lect"\, n. [L. neglectus. See Neglect, v.]

  1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

    To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came.
    --Milton.

  2. Omission of attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

  3. Habitual carelessness; negligence.

    Age breeds neglect in all.
    --Denham.

  4. The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

    Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect.
    --Prior.

    Syn: Negligence; inattention; disregard; disesteem; remissness; indifference. See Negligence.

    benign neglect A deliberate policy of minimizing public discussion of a controversial issue [e.g. by the president] on the theory that excessive discussion in itself is harmful or counterproductive.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
neglect

1520s, from Latin neglectus, past participle of neglegere "to make light of, disregard, be indifferent to, not heed, not trouble oneself about," literally "not to pick up," variant of neclegere, from Old Latin nec "not" (see deny) + legere "pick up, select" (see lecture (n.)). Related: Neglected; neglecting.

neglect

1580s, from neglect (v.) or from Latin neglectus "a neglecting," noun use of past participle of neglegere.

Wiktionary
neglect

n. 1 The act of neglecting. 2 The state of being neglected. 3 habitual lack of care. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something. 2 (label en transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 3 (label en transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.

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WordNet
neglect

  1. n. lack of attention and due care [syn: disregard]

  2. the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: disuse]

  3. willful lack of care and attention [syn: disregard]

  4. the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern [syn: negligence, neglectfulness]

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

neglect

  1. v. leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to]

  2. fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" [syn: fail]

  3. fail to attend to; "he neglects his children"

  4. give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn: ignore, disregard]

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Wikipedia
Neglect

Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for himself or herself, but fails to provide adequate care.

Neglect may include the failure to provide sufficient supervision, nourishment, or medical care, or the failure to fulfill other needs for which the victim cannot provide themselves. The term is also applied when necessary care is withheld by those responsible for providing it from animals, plants, and even inanimate objects. Neglect can carry on in a child's life falling into many long-term side effects such as: physical injuries, low self-esteem, attention disorders, violent behavior, and can even cause death.

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Usage examples of "neglect".

Piles are not only in and of themselves very painful and annoying, but often greatly aggravate and even cause other grave and painful affections, and should, therefore, not be neglected.

And with the painting finished, Brigit had spent the day at Akasha, tending to the plants that had been a bit neglected these last few days.

If the cosmic menace of the anomaly had been ignored or underestimated, if our needs had been neglected, the errors had not been ours.

The trees looked as if they were dying and the flowers in the neglected beds rattled in the fumes and slipstreams of the traffic.

This hotel-de-ville, or town-hall, is the former Bailliage, the mansion of Groslot, the most illustrious house in Orleans, and the most neglected.

The single silver scabbard it bore was tarnished and begrimed from long neglect, but there was no sign of the sword it once held.

Defoe was welcomed aboard by the Port Master, a local worthy who doubled as Mayor of Shacktown, charged with neglecting sanitation and handing out beer and bhang on election day.

Barbie du Bocage, and points out that he appears to have neglected to consult de Barros, the most distinguished of all early Portuguese historians.

Snowdons, but to redeem a promise recently made to Bessie Byass, who declared herself vastly indignant at the neglect with which he treated her.

There was quite a bit of caffe consumed, but the ouiskie, brandy, wine, and beer were not neglected, either.

I should not have neglected to add that the damage to the ozone layer through the use of chlorofluorocarbons and similar substances in the twentieth century has brought about a serious intensification of incoming solar radiation, adding to the problem of global warming.

Me thinks there is some hanky-panky between the neglected Lady Coombs and him.

Lifting up my soul to God I could not help thinking that this misfortune was a Divine punishment for neglecting to escape when all was ready.

Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.

They looked instead to that neglected child of cryptography, the cipher.