Term: contributory negligence: (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
Candidate hypernym: negligence: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances → 1
Candidate hypernym: sociometry: the quantitative study of social relationships → 0
Candidate hypernym: urban legend: a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true → 0
Candidate hypernym: flip: hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyromania: an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things → 0
Candidate hypernym: pomology: the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: agent: any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau → 0
Candidate hypernym: koasati: the Muskhogean language spoken by the Koasati → 0
Candidate hypernym: incontinence: involuntary urination or defecation → 0
Candidate hypernym: lake trout: large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: racer: slender fast-moving North American snakes → 0