OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12499

omission

/əˈmɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
omisión
The act of omitting.
Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.
omisión
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.
omisión
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.
omisión
Something not done or neglected.
The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
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