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Noun: permissive waste
  1. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
    "The tenant's failure to maintain the property resulted in permissive waste";
    - waste

Derived forms: permissive wastes

Type of: act, deed, human action, human activity

Encyclopedia: Permissive waste