Complete Definition of "dereliction"

English
Noun
dereliction

  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.

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

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