The word "dereliction" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that is used to describe the state of being neglected or abandoned. Example Sentence: The dereliction of the house was evident after years of neglect.
Seabrook gives a memorable picture of dereliction: "The city of men had become a city of animals.
While survivors are ferried to the relative safety of islands such as Lampedusa and Sicily, and victims disappear for ever, the impact of these tragedies will reverberate as far as Brussels, where the EU stands accused of dereliction of duty.
However, it would be inappropriate and a dereliction of duty on the part of the president to unduly act hastily in his consideration of the report.
Down amid the eerie dereliction, both the allure and the scepticism are understandable.
On June 17th Mr Maliki gave credence to such talk, dismissing four of his generals for dereliction of duty.ISIS is riding high for the moment.
Canada recently protested after America sold leases for the disputed zone.Canada's lawyers say that its claim to sovereignty is well founded but could be abandoned by dereliction.
Furthermore, they regard the advancement of Sunnis, or the lacklustre promotion of the Shia faith in Sunni areas, as a dereliction of duty.Some people in Sanandaj detect Ayatollah Khamenei's hand in the appointment of a non-Kurdish Shia official to be provincial governor.
And it is why, in December 2010, at America's instigation, the fund's members agreed to a bolder reform that would double the quotas and raise the emerging economies' voting power.In this section Rise of the robots Dereliction of duty On the march All for one Boring can still be bad ReprintsMore than three years later, Congress has still not endorsed this reform.
But whether that is enough to turn round a country heading for dereliction any time soon or whether they will be allowed to try doing so is still doubtful.Correction: We said that Zimbabwe's official gold output in 1999 was 27m tonnes.
But regulators will weigh that potential expense against the expense of another systemic "dereliction of duty" by the auditors.
First, the one that may be forced on you anyway: an exit by Greece arising from gross dereliction of its duties under the various bail-out agreements.
