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apology | American Dictionary

apology
noun[ C ]
us/əˈpɑl·ə·dʒi/
an act of saying that you are sorry:
I have an apology to make to you – I opened your letter by mistake.
He owes me an apology (= He should say he is sorry).
My apologies (= I am sorry) for not writing you sooner.

apology | Business English

apology
noun
uk /əˈpɒlədʒi/uspluralapologies
[ C or U ]
the act of saying sorry or a message that says sorry:
An apology and a refund are being sent to the customer.
issue/make an apologyThe hotel has issued an apology for its mistake.
a letter of apology
formalPlease accept my apologies.
 apologies[ plural ]
MEETINGS
the act of telling the person in charge of a meeting that you are not able to come, or the list of people who have done this:
Ms Kamen sends her apologies.
First on the agenda we have apologies, then the treasurer's report.

Examples of apology

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Dancers with a developed technique and a high degree of competence hardly ever come into contact, and such incidents are usually followed by fulsome apologies.
Thirdly, he challenges the many thinlyveiled apologies for colonialism and neo-liberalism that characterise much of the contemporary literature.
When the apologies are credible, that is, they comprise punishment and increases in monitoring of the government, they reduce labour disquiet and production disinvestment.
Similarly, it is not true that economic performance causes credible apologies.
Consequently, a pooled cross-sectional time-series logit regression (fixed effects) of government's credible apologies was offered in the appendix of the article.
By the end of the 1990s, calls to restructure the welfare state eclipsed apologies on the part of its defenders.
The results support the argument advanced earlier that the effect of the government's credible apologies is statistically significant and reduces strikes as unemployment increases.
Interestingly, the results also mean that production investment falls if the government offers credible apologies when economic performance is optimal (unemployment below 3.8 per cent).
The treaty does not mention the act of colonization or regret over the pain inflicted, nor make any apologies.
Thereafter, several developmental trends were noted including a decrease with age in directly elicited apologies and an increase in indirectly elicited apologies.
Rather, apologies are frequently employed to mark minor disruptions in ongoing activities or interactions.
We began this study by asking a number of questions about children's real world experiences with apologies.
Thus, in the context of these recordings, children heard very few apologies directed to others.
The distribution of apologies within this speech community is a helpful case study, highlighting both what communities of practice are and what they are not.
Importantly, she claims, "social distance and social power do play an important role in the performance of requests and apologies, respectively" (p. 182).
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Collocations withapology

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abject apology
I am asked to make it an abject apology.
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