omissionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/əʊˈmɪʃ.ən//əˈmɪʃ.ən/us/oʊˈmɪʃ.ən/the act of not including something or someone that should have been included, or something or someone that has not been included that should have been:
Measures to control child employment are a glaring (= very obvious) omission from new legislation to protect children.
There are some serious errors and omissions in the book.
The fans believed that the omission of Heacock from the team was a serious mistake.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
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