DUE CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does due care mean? 

• DUE CARE (noun)
  The noun DUE CARE has 1 sense:

1. the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty

  Familiarity information: DUE CARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUE CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

due care; ordinary care; reasonable care

Hypernyms ("due care" is a kind of...):

care; charge; guardianship; tutelage (attention and management implying responsibility for safety)

 Context examples 

From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants appointed for that purpose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)