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dereliction of duty

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meanings of derelictionand duty


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dereliction
noun
uk /ˌder.əˈlɪk.ʃən/ us /ˌder.əˈlɪk.ʃən/
failure to do what you should do, especially in your ...
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈdʒuː.ti/ us /ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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Examples of dereliction of duty


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If officials had no reasons to follow the rules, why would the public criticize them for their derelictionofduty?
But to desist from these truly vital questions would appear to us as derelictionofduty.
This was widely perceived as a gross derelictionofduty.
There was now no sound defence for forgetting duties for rules had been made public, and a failure to turn up was itself a derelictionofduty.
I am convinced he was never even guilty of the smallest derelictionofduty.
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In my view it amounts to a derelictionofduty in this case.
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The court does not suggest that there was any derelictionofduty by any individual during this period.
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It would be a derelictionofduty if we did not do that.
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If he did not, it was a derelictionofduty.
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It is almost a derelictionofduty for him not to have looked at the research.
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This obviously is a clear derelictionofduty.
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They believe that the security forces, even when guilty of derelictionofduty, receive the benefit of the doubt.
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To do less would be a derelictionofduty.
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It would be a derelictionofduty not to try to do so.
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If they did, they would rightly be accused of a grave derelictionofduty.
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That was not in any way from derelictionofduty.
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When can we have some action on that gross derelictionofduty on the part of the drug companies?
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But, at any rate, there was no grave derelictionofduty in what happened.
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There must have been a derelictionofduty on one, two, three, four, five and six years.
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If they did not discuss that matter, it was a gross derelictionofduty.
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