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• accident — See car accident …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Accident-proneness — is the conception that some people have a predispositions to be more likely to have accidents, such as car crashes and industrial injuries, than other people. It may be used as a reason to deny an insurance.Early work The early work on this… …   Wikipedia

• accident — An occurrence by chance or not as expected. Haser v Maryland Casualty Co. 78 ND 893, 53 NW2d 508, 33 ALR2d 1018; Anno: 8 ALR2d 409. In lesser scope, an occurrence which could not have been foreseen by the exercise of reasonable prudence, one… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• accident — 1 *quality, character, attribute, property Analogous words: mark, *sign, note, badge, token, symptom: characteristic, peculiarity (see corresponding adjectives at CHARACTERISTIC) Antonyms: substance (in philosophy) 2 *chance, hazard, luck, fort …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• accident — ac·ci·dent n: an unexpected usu. sudden event that occurs without intent or volition although sometimes through carelessness, unawareness, ignorance, or a combination of causes and that produces an unfortunate result (as an injury) for which the… …   Law dictionary

• Accident — • The obvious division of things into the stable and the unstable Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Accident     Accident     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Accident — Ac ci*dent, n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See {Cadence}, {Case}.] 1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one s foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• accident and emergency — ˌaccident and eˈmergency [accident and emergency] (abbr. A & E) (BrE) noun uncountable ( …   Useful english dictionary

• accident — (n.) late 14c., an occurrence, incident, event, from O.Fr. accident (12c.), from L. accidentem (nom. accidens), prp. of accidere happen, fall out, fall upon, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + cadere fall (see CASE (Cf …   Etymology dictionary

• accident — [ak′sə dənt] n. [ME < OFr < L accidens, prp. of accidere, to fall upon, happen < ad , to + cadere, to fall: see CASE1] 1. a happening that is not expected, foreseen, or intended 2. an unpleasant and unintended happening, sometimes… …   English World dictionary

• accident waiting to happen — see ↑accident • • • Main Entry: ↑wait …   Useful english dictionary