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contributory negligence

 
Noun contributory negligence has 1 sense
  1. contributory negligence - (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages
    --1 is a kind of
    negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance
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