Meaning of omission | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ellipsis, omission.
2. The act of omitting.
   uncountable
3. The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
   uncountable
4. An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
   countable
5. Something not done or neglected.
   countable, uncountable
6. The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.”

“E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.”

“The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.”

“The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.”

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