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Dereliction
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is recreancy. Does it mean:
| marked by blithe unconcern |
| cowardly or craven |
Example Sentences
- Post-tenure review would mean that tenure, though guaranteeing academic freedom, no longer protects gross dereliction.
- To sit at the executive table and neither to know nor to inquire about deals involving billions of dollars is dereliction of duty.
- He is charged with dereliction of duty and failure to comply with regulations.
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Word Origin & History
dereliction
1590s, "abandonment" (formerly with a wider range than in modern use, e.g. of the sea withdrawing from the land), from L. derelictionem, noun of action from derelinquere (see derelict). Meaning "failure in duty" is from c.1830.
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