- [uncountable]
the state of land or buildings not being used or cared for and in bad condition 荒废；弃置；破旧不堪 industrial/urban dereliction 工业／城市废墟 a house in a state of dereliction 破旧不堪的房屋
- [uncountable, singular] dereliction of duty (formal or
law 法律 the fact of deliberately not doing what you ought to do, especially when it is part of your job 玩忽职守；渎职
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin derelictio(n-), from the verb derelinquere, from de- ‘completely’ + relinquere ‘forsake’.