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  • 61laches — la·ches / la chəz, lā , shəz/ n pl laches [Anglo French lachesce laschesce negligence, from Old French lasche lax, ultimately from Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1: undue delay in asserting a right or privilege compare statute of… …

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  • 62delinquent — de·lin·quent 1 /di liŋ kwənt/ n: a delinquent person; esp: juvenile delinquent delinquent 2 adj [Latin delinquent delinquens, present participle of delinquere to commit (an offense), err] 1 a: offending by neglect or violation of duty or law …

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  • 63active negligence — A term of extensive meaning embracing many occurrences that would fall short of willful wrongdoing, or of crass negligence, for example, all inadvertent acts causing injury to others, resulting from failure to exercise ordinary care; likewise,… …

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  • 64active negligence — A term of extensive meaning embracing many occurrences that would fall short of willful wrongdoing, or of crass negligence, for example, all inadvertent acts causing injury to others, resulting from failure to exercise ordinary care; likewise,… …

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  • 65maladministration — I noun bad job, blunder, botchery, bungling, default, dereliction of duty, evasion of duty, failure of duty, incompetency, inefficiency, inefficient management, malfeasance, malversation, misadministration, misapplication, misconduct,… …

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  • 66oversight — I (carelessness) noun blunder, careless mistake, careless omission, erratum, error, failure, failure to notice, heedlessness, inadvertency, inattention, incuria, lapse, laxity, laxness, mistake, neglect, negligence, nonobservance, remissness,… …

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  • 67error — er·ror n: an act that through ignorance, deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done procedural error s; esp: a mistake made by a lower court in conducting judicial proceedings or making findings in a case to… …

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  • 68Defection — De*fec tion, n. [L. defectio: cf. F. d[ e]fection. See {Defect}.] Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy;… …

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  • 69Benjamin Hallowell Carew — Infobox Military Person name=Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew lived=1 January 1761 ndash; death date and age|1834|9|2|1761|1|1|df=y caption= placeofbirth = Probably Boston, Massachusetts placeofdeath = nickname= residence = United Kingdom… …

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  • 70slip — index coupon, delinquency (failure of duty), deviate, ebb, err, error, failure (falling short) …

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