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CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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