omission

Phonetic

US /əˈmɪʃn/UK /əˈmɪʃn/

Translations

NOUNThe act of omitting., The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do., An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out., Something not done or neglected., 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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omissions: Plural

Examples

Patrick Morrisey called the Mountaineersmˌaʊntɪnˈɪrz’ omission from the 68-team men’s bracket “a miscarriage of justice and robbery at the highest level.”
Source:www.nytimes.com
The camera has no night mode, which is a curious omission — basically every other midrange phone offers some sort of low-light photo mode, and the phone’s processor is certainly up to the task.
Source:www.theverge.com
Since the law in question considerably magnifies penalties when the misconduct is “wilful”, the omission was potentially disastrous —and could only have been caught by someone with the right combination of legal and linguistic nous
Source:www.economist.com
We regard it as our duty continually to speak about it in advance, so that we do not sometimes praise Christianity with an omission of what is essentially difficult, and at other times, perhaps on the occasion of a particular text, hit upon a few grounds of comfort for the person tried and tested in life
Source:en.wikipedia.org

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