different between omission vs surcharge

English

Etymology

From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o??m???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

omission (countable and uncountable, plural omissions)

1. (uncountable) The act of omitting.
2. (uncountable) 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.

3. (countable) 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.

4. Something not done or neglected.

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

5. (grammar) 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.

   Hyponym: contraction

Usage notes

Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe:

six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”)

The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”)

O’er there (shortening of “over there”)

• From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

  S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.

Translations

See also

• contraction

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto. See omettre and -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.mi.sj??/

Noun

omission f (plural omissions)

1. omission (act of omitting)

   Synonym: prétérition

Related terms

• omettre

Further reading

• “omission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

omission

1. Alternative form of omissioun

English

Etymology

From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. Surface etymology is sur- +? charge. Doublet of supercharge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??(?)t????(?)d??/

Noun

surcharge (plural surcharges)

1. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.

2. The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
3. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
4. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
5. (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
6. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.

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7. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
8. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
9. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

Translations

See also

• surtax
• surcharged

Verb

surcharge (third-person singular simple present surcharges, present participle surcharging, simple past and past participle surcharged)

1. To apply a surcharge.
2. To overload; to overburden.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 150:

     The threat was soon fulfilled; the evening came on, prematurely darkened by clouds that seemed surcharged with a deluge.

3. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
4. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

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Antonyms

• discount

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.?a??/
• Homophones: surchargent, surcharges

Etymology 1

sur- +? charge

Noun

surcharge f (plural surcharges)

1. overloading
2. (object-oriented programming) overloading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

surcharge

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of surcharger
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of surcharger
3. second-person singular imperative of surcharger