Apology

Definition

apology /ǝ'pɒlǝdʒi/ n ၁။ (က) [C, U] ~ (to sb) (for sth) ေတာင္းပန္ျခင္း။ ေတာင္းပန္တာ။ offer/make/demand/accept an apology ❍ a letter of apology ❍ I owe you an apology. ❍ Please accept our apologies for the delay. (ခ) [C often pl ] (အစည္းအေဝး၊ အခမ္းအနား စသည္ မတက္ ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း (သို႔) အၿပီးအစီးမေနႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း) ေတာင္းပန္ခ်က္။ apologies for absence ❍ Apologies were received from Mr Hart and Miss Rowe. ❍ I made my apologies (to my host) and left early. ၂။ [C] ( fml ) ဝန္ခ်ေတာင္းပန္ျခင္း။ I make no apology for this decision. ၃။ [sing] ~ for sth ( derog ) ႏံုခ်ာလွစြာ [ေသာ]။ ျဖစ္ကတတ္ဆန္း။ Please excuse this apology for a letter— I shall write at greater length next week.

Examples

1. We would have been happy with an apology.
2. [make an apology] : He made a public apology for his remarks.
3. [owe someone an apology] : I think I owe you an apology.
4. [demand an apology] : We wrote to the editor demanding an apology.
5. [accept someone’s apology] : Of course we accepted his apologies – what else could we do?