CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does criminal negligence mean? 

• CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE (noun)
  The noun CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE has 1 sense:

1. (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)

  Familiarity information: CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE (noun)

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

criminal negligence; culpable negligence

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)