lose sight of
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[edit]Verb
[edit]lose sight of (third-person singular simple present loses sight of, present participle losing sight of, simple past and past participle lost sight of)
- To be no longer able to see.
- The soldier lost sight of the enemy.
- To fail to remember; to overlook or neglect.
- After he graduated from university he lost sight of his career goals.
- 2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “RAIL Supplement: Reimagining and rebooting the passenger railway”, in RAIL, number 952, page 6 (supplement):
- Smith warns: "You must not lose sight of the fact that not everyone can do contactless payment and mobile ticketing. Not everyone has a bank account, not everyone can use a smartphone, not everyone works cashless.
Translations
[edit]be no longer able to see
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fail to remember
References
[edit]- “lose sight of”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.