Excuses To Miss Work

excuse may refer to specific acts especially in social or conventional situations or the person responsible for these. Often the term implies extenuating circumstances. Definition of excuse noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

a reason, either true or invented, that you give to explain or defend your behaviour. Late again! What's your excuse this time? I tried desperately to think of a good excuse. I know I missed the deadline, but I have an excuse.

An excuse is a reason that you give in order to explain why something has been done or has not been done, or in order to avoid doing something. It is easy to find excuses for his indecisiveness. If you stop making excuses and do it you'll wonder what took you so long.

excuse someone for something/doing something Please excuse me for arriving late - the bus was delayed. Nothing can excuse that sort of behavior. No amount of financial recompense can excuse the way in which the company carried out its policy.

We cannot excuse him for these crimes. 1. to pardon or forgive: he always excuses her unpunctuality.

an instance or act of excusing: I don't want to hear any more of your excuses. a ground or reason for excusing or being excused: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Excuse definition: To serve as justification for.

Excuse, forgive, pardon imply being lenient or giving up the wish to punish. Excuse means to overlook some (usually) slight offense: to excuse bad manners. Forgive is applied to excusing more serious offenses: to forgive and forget.

Noun excuse (countable and uncountable, plural excuses) (countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault. An excuse is an explanation for something that went wrong. When we give an excuse, we're trying to get someone to cut us some slack.

When you finish dinner and ask, "May I be excused?" you've used one of many meanings of this word.