Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable)The act of omitting.

    Unterlassung, Unterlassen

    упуще́ниеupuščénije

  2. (uncountable)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.

    Unterlassen, Unterlassung

    опло́шностьoplóšnostʹ

  3. (countable)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.

    Auslassung

    про́пускprópusk

    any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

  4. (countable, uncountable)Something not done or neglected.

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

    Unterlassung

    упуще́ниеupuščénije

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Auslassung

    про́пускprópusk

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom made one serious omission.

  2. There are known errors and omissions.

    deEs sind Fehler und Auslassungen bekannt. — Yorwba

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  3. That omission says a lot about his priorities.

    deDiese Auslassung sagt viel über seine Prioritäten aus. — Yorwba

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  4. Many other similar disconcerting omissions will be noticed in the manuscript.

  5. Omission is a perfectly good example of an expression technique, and is brought up in many grammar books.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
the act of omitting:
the act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do:
something deleted or left out:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the act of omitting:
something deleted or left out:

Origin

From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omission

From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.

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Forms

plural: omissions
Singularomission
Pluralomissions

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a mistake resulting from neglect:skip
  • any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases:deletion

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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