I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fail/neglect/omit to mention sth (= deliberately not mention something )
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I omitted to mention that I had not been to university.
neglect of duty (= failing to do your job properly )
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Six police officers were fired for neglect of duty.
neglect/shirk your duties (= not do your job properly )
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No soldier can be allowed to neglect his duties.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
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Criminologists, too, have largely neglected the prisons.
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If nothing else, the arena is expected to spawn revitalization of a largely neglected area of downtown.
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Such basic work, oddly enough, has been largely neglected .
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Food production, though largely neglected by the government in the early nineteenth century, remained very important.
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This aspect of London speech has also been largely neglected by researchers.
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But information responsibility to oneself is still largely neglected .
often
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The second part of step two is often neglected by teachers, mainly because it is difficult to obtain accurate information.
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Several of them, including Jeffries, often neglected to hand in grades at the end of the term.
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Educational practice in this country has acknowledged the cognitive side of learning but has often neglected the affective side.
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Freud later developed the technique of free association, a triumph which is often neglected in the discussion of his controversial theories.
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Yet, because policymakers often neglect demographics, those who watch them and exploit them can reap great rewards.
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Woman-centred feminism often neglects theory in favour of documenting feminine experience.
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It begins by looking at the often neglected memorial monument of the civic square and the public place.
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Yet in the race to complete as many transactions as possible, the fundamentals were often neglected , with resultant problems later.
■ NOUN
aspect
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Bukharin was not one of those who neglected the material aspects of the reproduction schemata.
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These neglected aspects weaken attempts to distribute land due to the very low levels of profit from the minifundia.
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This neglected aspect of the electronic-publishing debate divides into two quite separate issues.
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Furthermore, they have concentrated their attention largely upon economic growth while neglecting other aspects of development.
child
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It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated.
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Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.
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Laws, however much they may help, do not prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring each year.
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Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected .
duty
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However, unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties .
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He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.
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As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well.
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Will the doctor be neglecting his duty if he respect this patient's expression of will?
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Other companies are happy to invest, with the proviso that the government does not neglect its duty .
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Ned would never neglect a duty , however tiresome, never put his own comfort first.
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You women are neglecting your duty .
fact
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If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers.
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What with the shower incident and the strain of management I neglected to recall the fact I could not drive.
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That is understandable, but it neglects the fact that press freedom is an issue for more than just the press.
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Any analysis of human behavior which neglected these facts would be defective indeed.
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This neglects the fact that there may be more efficient and effective ways of achieving system objectives which remain unconsidered.
family
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In our family the father was some one who neglected his family.
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C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families .
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I had neglected my friends, family , job, social life, virtually everything to do with living a normal life.
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Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
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She was still reeling from the attention that had come with the Pulitzer and had neglected her family .
issue
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For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems, neglecting political and legal issues .
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Congress has accused certain agencies of neglecting the issue .
study
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Party elders were concerned that the younger generation of intellectuals took no interest in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought and were neglecting their political studies .
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Here Rolfe neglected his religious studies and developed his interests in poetry, painting, and photography.
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There is a danger that we neglect a profound study of a main instrument, and end up as mediocrities.
work
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She'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half.
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There were no major cases on hand and he had no excuse for neglecting the routine administrative work .
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It was striking that the historical, social and policy implications of language teaching were the areas most neglected in methods work .
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So immersed are many black kids in their sport or sports, they sometimes neglect their academic work .
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The time for that will come, and must come, for tales have been much neglected in favour of other work and scholarship.
■ VERB
abuse
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In the midst of our comfort there are those in our own city who will be forgotten abused or neglected .
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Children abused or seriously neglected in childhood often exhibit as adults a sociopathic inability to empathize with other people.
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A thousand or more children are being abused or neglected every week - and three or four die every week.
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Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.
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Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected .
afford
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Such a possession, once recognised as it now is, no university can afford to neglect .
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Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment, the hard financial investment, stored in our built environment.
feel
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Recovery from illness is sometimes avoided by older people, particularly when they feel lonely and neglected .
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But some hospitals are short-staffed, and their patients complain of feeling neglected .
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She was feeling vulnerable and neglected , he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company.
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Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
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I feel I've neglected her.
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He felt his neglect bitterly, but he was not, essentially, an envious man.
tend
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In doing so it has often tended to neglect crucial distinctions between the nature of language and the nature of images.
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Men tend to neglect children of their first marriages in favor of the children of their current unions.
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Some anglers use three rods, but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected .
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Let us be clear about the facts of the election that they tend to neglect .
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But this approach tends to neglect the monetary effects of budgetary decisions.
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Egalitarian feminist psychology tends to neglect gender issues that do not relate to traditional psychological interest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each year 700,000 children are abused or neglected.
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Four security guards were accused of neglecting their duties.
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He was neglected by his parents when he was very young.
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My career was all-important, and my family got neglected.
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Some teachers devote too much time to helping their slower students and neglect the brighter ones.
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Soon, Barker was neglecting the farm and spending most of his time in the casino.
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Staff at the hostel were accused of neglecting and abusing children in their care.
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The President had been criticized for neglecting domestic issues.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Antiracists have pointed out that in privileging prejudice and attitudes the multiculturalists have neglected racism as embedded in structures and institutions.
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Most of its partisans had focused mainly on military actions, neglecting political efforts necessary to mobilize mass support.
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Some anglers use three rods, but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected.
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Students today can not so easily neglect financial worries as their predecessors twenty years before.
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This is only true in deep space when the gravitational force can be neglected.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
benign
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Indeed, after years of benign neglect , the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter's dream.
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Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect .
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Where interiors have survived, it has been through benign neglect .
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Given the performance of most bond funds the past three years, perhaps some benign neglect was in order.
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A decade of benign neglect of energy policies has been abruptly spotlighted in the blockaded streets of London, Brussels and Paris.
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Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.
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Haass is for the third option. Benign neglect will not be benign, he says.
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A policy worthy of the suspicion of benign neglect .
physical
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As far as physical abuse and neglect is concerned, a variety of factors may put a family at risk.
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As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect , sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
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Whole generations of children will otherwise be in danger of emotional and physical neglect .
relative
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The Party's obvious nervousness about railway and other workers and relative neglect of the rural hinterland needs a little more explanation.
■ VERB
lead
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The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities, leading to personal neglect , anti-social behaviour and crime.
suffer
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If the Conservative Party generally has suffered from neglect , the Edwardian Conservatives have suffered most.
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Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.
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Even heat if those radiators which had not been stolen had not suffered by their neglect .
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By comparison, companies in the 20-50 jobs bracket suffer from neglect , they say.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cases of child abuse and neglect seem to be increasing in number.
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He alleges that the orphanages have allowed children to die from medical neglect .
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increases in homelessness, child abuse and neglect
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Lieutenant Bradley was demoted to sergeant for neglect of duty.
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The inner cities are in a state of neglect .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All these signs, of course, are only indicators that should alert reasonable educators to the possibility of abuse or neglect .
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And by the neglect of the long hot summer.
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Birds can fly away, but buildings stay to suffer the consequences of environmental neglect .
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Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention.
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Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land.
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She had suffered, she said, from his neglect .
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That was a scandalous neglect of the interests of those customers and it will not be repeated under this Government.
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This neglect becomes more serious as services becomes more important in the economy.