What is "neglect of duty"

Usage examples of "neglect of duty".

Any failure of responsibility or neglect of duty belonged to him, and nothing could change that.

Not one person had been punished for disobedience or neglect of duty.

The farmers of the taxes, being chargeable with the loss, complained to Caesar, and Caesar held Herod to payment, and Herod, on his part, seized property of Ilderim, whom he charged with treasonable neglect of duty.