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Definition of omit
omitted
;omitting
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Examples of omit in a Sentence
Please don't omit any details.
you must not omit mentioning the sources you used in researching your paper
Recent Examples of omit from the Web
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Miami Heat President Pat Riley curiously omitted a letter when discussing the free-agency whirlwind that begins Saturday.
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Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com, Kurt Helin of NBCsports.com, and Marc Kestecher of ESPN Radio also omitted Saric, however, so forget the international conspiracy.
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Some public records don't accurately reflect who owed the debt because the names on some files were mixed up and some Social Security numbers were omitted.
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The suit omits the fact that the San Joaquin County Sheriff, where the island is located, sided with Stevenson.
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Food handler certification violations and establishments that failed only because employees didn’t have valid certificates have been omitted from these reports.
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Not surprisingly for a project that omitted the dramatic unveiling, Zames, too, keeps coming back.
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An article about transportation in the developing world’s megacities in Wednesday’s Future of Transportation report incorrectly omitted MIT, the University of Nairobi and...
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Normally this speech repeats key legislative promises made during the election campaign, but May is expected to omit the most controversial items of her election manifesto because they were rejected by a majority of voters.
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Origin and Etymology of omit
Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere, from ob- toward + mittere to let go, send — more at ob-
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omit
playDefinition of omit for English Language Learners
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: to leave out (someone or something) : to not include (someone or something)
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: to fail to do (something)
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Word Root of omit
The Latin word mittere, meaning “to send,” and its form missus give us the roots mit and miss. Words from the Latin mittere have something to do with sending. A missile is an object, such as a bullet, arrow, or rocket, that is sent through the air so as to hit a target. To emit is to send forth or give out. To omit, or leave out, is to send away so as to not be included. To permit, or allow, is to send something through without stopping it.
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