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The paper deals with the oscillation of solutions to first-order neutral delay differential equations with variable coefficients \[ {\frac d{dt}} [x(t) - R(t) x(t-r)] + P(t) x(t-\tau) - Q(t) x(t-\delta) = 0, \tag{1} \] under the assumptions that \(P,Q,R \in C([t_0,\infty),\mathbb{R}^+),\;r \in (0,\infty)\) and \(\tau,\delta \in \mathbb{R}^+, \tau \geq \delta,\;P(t) - Q(t-\tau+\delta) \geq 0\). The authors give necessary and sufficient conditions for the oscillation of all solutions to (1). The authors' main contribution is that no integral conditions of the form \[ \int_{t_0}^\infty [P(s)-Q(s-\tau+\delta)]ds = \infty \] are assumed.