omission

中文： 省略、不作为

1. The act of omitting. (uncountable)
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Something not done or neglected. (countable, uncountable) · The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
5. 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. (countable, uncountable)

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