co3 lau6錯漏错漏
Jyutpingco3 lau6
Yalecho lauh
Definition
Mistakes, errors, and omissions resulting from negligence.
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How it's used
Focuses specifically on errors caused by oversight or missing information rather than general wrongness. It is frequently used in professional or administrative contexts to describe documents, data, or procedural steps. When something is riddled with errors, it is common to use the idiom 錯漏百出 to emphasize the severity of the situation.
Examples
The report has many mistakes and omissions, it needs to be revised.
Have you checked it thoroughly? Are there any mistakes or omissions?
Related words
Common phrases
check for mistakes and omissions
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe a moral mistake or a personal error in judgment, as it is strictly reserved for factual, technical, or clerical inaccuracies.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
