dereliction

1 a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities" [syn: delinquency, willful neglect]

2 willful negligence

English

Pronunciation

• a UK /ˈdɛɹɛ.lɪk.ʃən/|/ˈdɛrɪ.lɪk.ʃən/; /"dErE.lIk.S@n/|/"dErI.lIk.S@n/

Noun

1. willful neglect of one's duty

   The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.

   What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.

2. the act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned

Derelict or dereliction commonly refers to:

• Abandonment of property, then referred to as a 'derelict'
• Dereliction of duty, abandoning one's post

But may also refer to:

• Derelict soil, land that has been damaged by industrial or other development activity
• The Derelict, a 1912 short story by William Hope Hodgson
• The Derelicts, a 1970s British R&B band
• Derelict (song), a fictional sea-shanty from the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A song by Beck on the album Odelay

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