report

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English

Etymology

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin reportāre (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + portāre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpoət/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpoːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Verb

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15th c.]
3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th–18th c.]
4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15th c.]

5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19th c.]

6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19th c.]
7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19th c.]
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

8. (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).

   Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.

9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. (obsolete) To refer.
12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• ⇒ Cantonese: port (pot¹)

Translations

Noun

report (plural reports)

1. 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).
2. Reputation.
3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

   Synonym: subordinate

Derived terms

• (piece of information): on report, report card, Gladue report
• (employee): direct report, indirect report

Descendants

• → Japanese: レポート (repōto), リポート (ripōto)

Translations

Further reading

• Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

French

Etymology

Deverbal from reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ/

Noun

report m (plural reports)

1. postponement
2. deferment

Synonyms

• ajournement

Further reading

• “report”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• porter