omission

The act of omitting.uncountable

• Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.

The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.uncountable

• E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.

An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.countable

• The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.

Something not done or neglected.countableuncountable

• The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.

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.countableuncountable