To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
To fail to care for or attend to something.
To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
Habitual lack of care.
The act of neglecting.
The state of being neglected.
The state of being a ward of someone.
In English feudal law, the guardianship which the lord had of the land of his vassal while the latter was an infant or minor.