Negligence vs Misconduct - What's the difference?
negligence | misconduct |
The state of being negligent.
(legal, singulare tantum) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
(legal, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
Bad behavior.
To mismanage.
# (reflexive) To misbehave.
(rare) To act improperly.
As nouns the difference between negligence and misconduct
is that negligence is the state of being negligent while misconduct is bad behavior.As a verb misconduct is
to mismanage.negligence
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Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* The breach of a duty of care is one element of the tort of negligence, but is also called (term); one must therefore take care to clarify what is meant.External links
* (wikipedia) ----misconduct
English
Etymology 1
From (mis-) + (conduct) (noun)Noun
(wikipedia misconduct) (en-noun)- The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.
Etymology 2
From (mis-) + (conduct) (verb)Verb
(en verb)- He misconducted himself with a chorus girl, according to his wife.