- There are a few omissions in the list.
- The police officer was reprimanded for the omission of his duty to inform the suspect of his rights.
- Her omission from the team was surprising.
There are a few omissions in the list.
the disk contains a selection of deleted scenes, and a couple of the omissions greatly add to the intelligibility of the movie's plot
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yearaccretion, accrual, addendum, addition, augmentation, boost, expansion, gain, increase, increment;
deduction, reduction, subtraction;
default, delinquency, dereliction, failure, neglect, negligence, oversight, pretermission;
: something that has not been included or done : something that has been omitted
: the act of not including or doing something
: the state of being not included in something
See words that rhyme with omission Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for omission Spanish Central: Translation of omission Nglish: Translation of omission for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of omission for Arabic speakers
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