o·mis·sion

(ō-mĭsh′ən)

1. The act or an instance of omitting.

2. The state of having been omitted.

3. Something omitted or neglected.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin omissiō, omissiōn-, from Latin omissus, past participle of omittere, to disregard; see omit.]

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omission

(əʊˈmɪʃən) or

omittance

1. something that has been omitted or neglected

2. the act of omitting or the state of having been omitted

[C14: from Latin omissiō, from omittere to omit]

oˈmissive adj

oˈmissiveness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

o•mis•sion

(oʊˈmɪʃ ən)

n.

1. the act of omitting.

2. the state of being omitted.

3. something left out, not done, or neglected.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin omissiō < Latin omitt(ere) to let go (see omit)]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	omission - a mistake resulting from neglect skip failure - an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes" error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
	2.	omission - something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" disuse, neglect - the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
	3.	omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases deletion aphaeresis, apheresis - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' aphesis - the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' elision - omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) eclipsis, ellipsis - omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences linguistic process - a process involved in human language
	4.	omission - neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something disregard, neglect - lack of attention and due care inadvertence, oversight - an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something pretermission - letting pass without notice exception, elision, exclusion - a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"

omission

noun

1. exclusion, removal, leaving out, elimination, deletion, excision, noninclusion her omission from the guest list
exclusion addition, inclusion, insertion, incorporation

2. gap, space, blank, exclusion, lacuna There is one noticeable omission in your article.

3. failure, neglect, default, negligence, oversight, carelessness, dereliction, forgetfulness, slackness, laxity, laxness, slovenliness, neglectfulness, remissness an injury occasioned by any omission of the defendant

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

omission

noun

Nonperformance of what ought to be done:

default, delinquency, dereliction, failure, neglect.

Law: nonfeasance.

Translations

حَذْفحَذْف، إغْفال، إسْقاط

udeladelseundladelse

Auslassung Versäumnis Weglassen

omisión

abandon omission

elhagyás

úrfellingúrfelling, òaî aî sleppa úr

omissione

forglemmelse utelatelse

купюра

vynechanie

izpustitev

atlamaatlanmış/unutulmuş şeyunutma

删节遗漏

omission

[əʊˈmɪʃən] N (= act of omitting) → omisión f; (= mistake) → descuido m
it was an omission on my part → fue un descuido mío

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

omission

[əʊˈmɪʃ^ən] n → omission f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

omission

n (= omitting: of word, detail etc) → Auslassen nt; (= word, thing etc left out) → Auslassung f; (= failure to do sth) → Unterlassung f; with the omission of … → unter Auslassung (+gen) → …; sin of omission (Eccl, fig) → Unterlassungssünde f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

omission

[əʊˈmɪʃ/ən] n → omissione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

omit

(əˈmit) – past tense, past participle oˈmitted – verb

1. to leave out. You can omit the last chapter of the book.

2. not to do. I omitted to tell him about the meeting.

oˈmission (-ʃən) noun

1. something that has been left out. I have made several omissions in the list of names.

2. the act of omitting. the omission of his name from the list.

omitted and omitting have two ts.

o·mis·sion

n. omisión; exclusión.

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