report
IPA: ripˈɔrt
noun
- A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
- Reputation.
- (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
- An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
- (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
- (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
- (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
- (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
- (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
- (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
- (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
- (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
- To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
- (obsolete) To refer.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
Examples of "report" in Sentences
- The report was modified.
- Isn't the proof in the reporting
- Is that the stuff from the reporter
- I abhor the message of the Leuchter Report.
- Is there a place to report such recalcitrance
- Both the reporter and the reported are scrutinized.
- The report tells the story of an inmate coerced in this way.
- Lastly, the last contender will report the message to the arbiter.
- Double mindedness is vacillation between a good report and a bad report.
- He should send these logs to the ombudsman committee and report the misconduct.
- With all of these pieces the code for a trivial report could look something like this: use Report; my $report = Report - > new ();
- Now….under Clinton, intel is gathered to figure out who did it, but before the report is finished, Clinton is out and Bush is in…..report is thus given to bush….and he did what Paul?
- * Goldstone called the allegation that the report encourages terror and negates Israel's right to self-defense "quite untrue and a fallacious attempt to win opposition to what is contained in the report*.
- • Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham• Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report• Richard Williams: Spurs 'England contingent shine• Daniel Taylor: City will be all the poorer for failure• In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the game
- • Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham• Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report• Richard Williams: Spurs 'England contingent shine• Daniel Taylor: City will be all the poorer for failure• In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the game "It's great for the club.
- • Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham• Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report• Daniel Taylor: City will be all the poorer for failure• In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the gamePeter Crouch had messed up a better chance five minutes before Marton Fulop, in the night's decisive moment, pushed Younes Kaboul's cross on to his head.
- • Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham• Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report• Richard Williams: Spurs 'England contingent shine• In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the gameUltimately, though, they came up conspicuously short and, as the game reached its final stages, Mancini could be seen screaming into the night air, kicking out those polished shoes and releasing all that pent-up frustration in the knowledge that a place in the Champions League qualifiers was about to pass them by.