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1) ADJ: usu v-link ADJ If something is missing, it is not in its usual place, and you cannot find it.

It was only an hour or so later that I discovered that my gun was missing...

The playing cards had gone missing.

2) ADJ If a part of something is missing, it has been removed or has come off, and has not been replaced.

Three buttons were missing from his shirt.

3) ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ from n If you say that something is missing, you mean that it has not been included, and you think that it should have been.

What is missing, however, is an internal, artistic cohesion...

She had given me an incomplete list. One name was missing from it.

4) ADJ Someone who is missing cannot be found, and it is not known whether they are alive or dead.

Five people died in the explosion and more than one thousand were injured. One person is still missing.

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PHRASE: usu v-link PHR If a member of the armed forces is missing in action, they have not returned from a battle, their body has not been found, and they are not thought to have been captured.