omission

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of omitting.

   • Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.
2. 2

   The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.

   • E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.
3. 3

   An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby

   An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.

   • The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.
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   1. 4

      Something not done or neglected.

      • The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
   2. 5

      The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing…

      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.

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