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exclusion
The act or practice of excluding.
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  1. The act or practice of excluding.
  2. An excluding or being excluded
  3. The condition or fact of being excluded.
withholding
The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
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  1. The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
  2. The portion of earned wages that an employer deducts to cover income tax purposes and forwards to the government.
  3. The process by which the employer makes the deduction. See also W-2 form and W-4 form.
neglect
Habitual lack of care:
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  1. Habitual lack of care:
  2. The action or status of failing to care for or to maintain something. The action or status of failing to care for or to maintain something.
  3. The state or fact of being neglected:
disregard
Lack of thoughtful attention or due regard.
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  1. Lack of thoughtful attention or due regard.
  2. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
  3. Lack of due regard or respect
oversight
Superintendence or supervision, often, specif., as part of governmental regulation
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  1. Superintendence or supervision, often, specif., as part of governmental regulation
  2. Supervision or management.
  3. An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
ignoring
The act by which something is ignored.
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  1. The act by which something is ignored.
preclusion
(Countable) The act of precluding
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  1. (Countable) The act of precluding
  2. (Uncountable) The condition of being precluded
prohibition
The act of prohibiting or the condition of being prohibited.
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  1. The act of prohibiting or the condition of being prohibited.
  2. (Proper) In the U.S., the period (1920-1933) of prohibition by federal law
  3. A statute or order forbidding a particular action.
elision
Omission of a sound that would normally be pronounced in speaking a word.
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  1. Omission of a sound that would normally be pronounced in speaking a word.
  2. The combination of two syllables into one for the purposes of poetic scansion.
  3. The omission, assimilation, or slurring over of a vowel, syllable, etc. in pronunciation: often used in poetry to preserve meter, as when a word ends with a vowel before another word beginning with a vowel (Ex.: “th' inevitable hour”)
breach
An opening made by a breakthrough, as in a wall, line of defense, etc.
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  1. An opening made by a breakthrough, as in a wall, line of defense, etc.
  2. A gap or rift, especially in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
  3. A failure to observe the terms, as of a law or promise, the customary forms, etc.; violation; infraction
cancellation
The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
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  1. The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
  2. A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear. For example, a court may call in, annul, and retain possession of a void deed to real estate that a party used to falsely claim title to someone else’s real property, in order to prevent any such claims in the future.
  3. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
repudiation
The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
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  1. The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
  2. The refusal, especially by public authorities, to acknowledge a contract or debt.
  3. Words or actions of a party to a contract that indicate the intention of that person to fail to carry out the contract in the future; a threat to breach a contract. Words or actions of a party to a contract that indicate the intention of that person to fail to carry out the contract in the future; a threat to breach a contract.
elimination
The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
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  1. The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
  2. (Mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
  3. (Logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
need
Something required or wanted; a requisite:
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  1. Something required or wanted; a requisite:
  2. A condition of poverty or misfortune:
  3. A condition of poverty, or extreme want
want
Something desired:
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  1. Something desired:
  2. A wish or desire for something; craving
  3. Pressing need; destitution:
imperfection
The quality or condition of being imperfect.
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  1. The quality or condition of being imperfect.
  2. (Uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.
  3. (Countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc.
default
(--- Computers) A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator:
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  1. (--- Computers) A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator:
  2. Failure to appear in court to defend or prosecute a case
  3. Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation, especially failure to meet a financial obligation:
delinquency
A debt or other financial obligation on which payment is overdue.
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  1. A debt or other financial obligation on which payment is overdue.
  2. Failure or neglect to do what duty or law requires
  3. A failure, by act or omission, to perform a legal or contractual obligation.
dereliction
The committing of a breach, typically of a duty.
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  1. The committing of a breach, typically of a duty.
  2. An increase in land caused by the recession of sea, river, or other body of water formerly covering it. Ownership is a function of how rapidly the water receded. See also reliction.
  3. A neglect of, or failure in, duty; a being remiss
failure
The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends:
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  1. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends:
  2. A cessation of proper functioning or performance:
  3. The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short:
neglect
The action of neglecting
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  1. The action of neglecting
  2. Habitual lack of care:
  3. The state or fact of being neglected:
nonfeasance
(Law) Failure to do what duty requires to be done
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  1. (Law) Failure to do what duty requires to be done
  2. A failure to act in derogation of a duty to do so. A failure to act in derogation of a duty to do so.
Find another word for omission. In this page you can discover 40 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for omission, like: exclusion, missing, leaving-out, withholding, failing to mention, neglect, not naming, overlooking, disregard, oversight and ignoring.

Sentence Examples

  • His regard for the young nobleman' last named dictated the omission in the later editions of his Moral Sentiments of the name of the celebrated ancestor of the duke, whom he had associated with Mandeville as author of one of the "licentious systems" reviewed in the seventh part of that work.

  • This omission is sometimes believed to be an error.

  • 22, show that there is no conscious omission by the Deuteronomic speaker of part of the original Decalogue, which cannot therefore have included the reason annexed in Exodus.

  • 4, 136, "whose love was [as] a bond to all our loves": a similar omission in Witch of Atlas, 599 599

  • We have here followed Dillmann's construction of a difficult passage which Duhm attempts to simplify by omission of the complicating clause without altering the general sense.

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