neglect

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So why does almost all new database projects seem to neglect them?

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lack of attention and due care

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of neglect gathered in one view.

noun

lack of attention and due care

noun

the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"

noun

willful lack of care and attention

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for neglect.

noun

lack of attention and due care

noun

the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"

noun

willful lack of care and attention

noun

the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

noun

failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

verb

leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

See also: pretermit, omit, drop, miss, overlook, overleap

verb

fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"

verb

fail to attend to; "he neglects his children"

verb

give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"

Example sentences

So why does almost all new database projects seem to neglect them?

As you say, a little neglect never hurt anybody.

When you "code until the sun comes up" you neglect basic human necessities like sleep and human contact.

People's passion or neglect isn't regulated by law; instead it's regulated by their own feeling of right and wrong.

The only way I can imagine that you think they're neglected is that you just don't know where to look for them, because these topics are all over the place in my world.

Asbestos + neglect + vandalism is a nasty combo.

There's an implicit deceit on the part of educators, who simply "neglect" to mention that they're training students for jobs that haven't existed for twenty years.

And well neglect feasibility, taking chances to achieve core grand symbolic values, rather than ordinary muddled values.

Sorry, but "neglect" is a pretty obnoxious accusation you're leveling against Alan.

Oh noes!The entire thrust of our medical regulatory system, from the Flexner Report to today, is the belief that it's better for 1000 patients to die of neglect, than 1 from quackery.

" They neglect to schedule you for more work, you follow up, they continue to neglect to schedule you for more work, you take the hint, and then you get paid $50k+ because that is what COO-level consultants cost for two weeks.

But there is still a difference between employees doing evil in defiance of management's orders, doing evil as instructed by management, and doing evil in a climate of management neglect.

You could call it the Eloi-Morlock bias:Regarding distant futures, however, well be too confident, focus too much on unlikely global events, rely too much on trends, theories, and loose abstractions, while neglecting details and variation.

In a completely opposite situation, if the star programmers work in isolation, disdain to discuss their work with lesser programmers, neglect to document their code, and aspire to write code that no one else understands, junior programmers will learn some very unhelpful lessons.

We seem primed to neglect the value and prospect of trillions of quirky future creatures not fundamentally that different from us, focused on their simple day-to-day pleasures, mostly getting along peacefully in vastly-varied uncoordinated and hard-to-predict local cultures and life-styles.