Report Definition–noun | 1. | an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient. | | 2. | a statement or announcement. | | 3. | a widely circulated statement or item of news; rumor; gossip. | | 4. | an account of a speech, debate, meeting, etc., esp. as taken down for publication. | | 5. | a loud noise, as from an explosion: the report of a distant cannon. | | 6. | a statement of a student's grades, level of achievement, or academic standing for or during a prescribed period of time. | | 7. | Computers. output, esp. printed, containing organized information. | | 8. | a statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of justice. | | 9. | reports, Law. a collection of adjudications. | | 10. | repute; reputation; fame: a man of bad report. | –verb (used with object) | 11. | to carry and repeat, as an answer or message; repeat, as what one has heard. | | 12. | to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation. | | 13. | to give or render a formal account or statement of: to report a deficit. | | 14. | to send back (a bill, amendment, etc.) to a legislative body with a formal report outlining findings and recommendations (often fol. by out): The committee reported out the bill. | | 15. | to make a charge against (a person), as to a superior: I intend to report him to the dean for cheating. | | 16. | to make known the presence, condition, or whereabouts of: to report a ship missing. | | 17. | to present (oneself) to a person in authority, as in accordance with requirements. | | 18. | to take down (a speech, lecture, etc.) in writing. | | 19. | to write an account of (an event, situation, etc.), as for publication in a newspaper. | –verb (used without object) | 21. | to prepare, make, or submit a report of something observed, investigated, or the like. | | 22. | to serve or work as a reporter, as for a newspaper. | | 23. | to make one's condition or whereabouts known, as to a person in authority: to report sick. | | 24. | to present oneself duly, as at a place: to report to Room 101. | —Idiom | 25. | on report, Military. (of personnel) under restriction pending disciplinary action. | |
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