criminal negligence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcriminalandnegligence
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criminal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkrɪm.ɪ.nəl/us/ˈkrɪm.ə.nəl/
relating ...
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negligence
noun[U]
uk/ˈneɡ.lɪ.dʒəns/us/ˈneɡ.lə.dʒəns/
the fact of not giving enough care or attention to someone ...
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(Definition ofcriminalandnegligencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She asked me to find out what was the dividing line between economy andcriminalnegligence.
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To add a further offence which introduces the concept ofcriminalnegligenceinto road traffic law is unnecessary and would create confusion.
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Workers need protection fromcriminalnegligenceby their employers.
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Yet the penalty for this callous disregard for those in their employment is entirely inadequate: the maximum fine forcriminalnegligenceis only £300.
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That neglect wascriminalnegligence; it was an absolutely disastrous policy.
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Three senior medical officials were convicted ofcriminalnegligenceand fraud and were sentenced to prison.
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What is needed, therefore, is a justification for punishingcriminalnegligencethat will not extend to ordinary negligence.
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These revelations cannot be separated from their larger context: widespread sloppiness and wrongdoing at criminal labs, including one lab shut down forcriminalnegligence.
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In any of these three cases there is evidence ofcriminalnegligence.
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It was a harrowing sight, and surely here is a case ofcriminalnegligence.
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I am informed that the coroner found that there was nocriminalnegligenceand that the deaths were accidental.
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For the consul to say that the body could not be identified is not inefficiency, but grosscriminalnegligenceof the most disgusting kind.
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That solicitor should have been prosecuted forcriminalnegligence.
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We speak of road accidents, and of, course, taken individually they are accidents, although an element ofcriminalnegligencemay enter into some of them.
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It must not only becriminalnegligence, but negligence of a very, very, very—there are three "verys"—bad kind indeed.
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If that were done, we should reduce these horrible cases ofcriminalnegligenceand cruelty to practically nothing at all.
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They took a view, which was based upon a view of the facts, that there wascriminalnegligence.
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This is a story of almostcriminalnegligencein the treatment of these works.
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That is not the only case where secrecy, the holding back of information, has covered upcriminalnegligence.
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I am accusing them of incompetence so overwhelming as to amount tocriminalnegligence.
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