CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)

Synonyms:

criminal negligence; culpable negligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("criminal negligence" is a kind of...):

carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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