Word Finder - report

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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).

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A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.

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Reputation.

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The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.

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An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

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• subordinate

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To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).

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To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).

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To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.

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To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.

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For insurance reasons, I had to report the theft to the local police station.

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To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).

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If you do that again I'll report you to the boss.

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To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.

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To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.

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Andrew Marr reports now on more in-fighting at Westminster.

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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).

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

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To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

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The committee reported the bill with amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.

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To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.

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To refer.

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To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Send me a report when you're done.

My account for the report is finished and sent off.

You'll have to report to court tomorrow morning.

She apolo­gized that she would once again need his detailed report now that the body remained missing.

The report came last night.

Only let me report this gentleman's business, and I shall be at your disposal.

There was far more to learn about Jeffrey Byrne before he could report an informed opinion on the happenings in Norfolk two nights earlier.

Are you going to report what we saw to Sheriff Weller?

Your report really helped.

I have to report for interrogation tomorrow morning.

Boss, Iggy at the lab sent me her report.

We have a hospital report from inner city Cleveland.

Will I be reading another report about you smacking someone?

There was no taxi report of a pick-up in the area.

This letter is published in the Perkins Institution Report (1891), p. 204.

At the same instant they heard a report and Dolokhov's angry cry.

Recommended local hospices attached to report.

Another report gives the arrivals in 1904 as 125,567 and the departures 38,923.

The committee was not unanimous and made no report.

Report, 1903, p. 628, and later papers in the Journ.

The Commons had ordered to be printed, among other papers, a report of the inspectors of prisons on Newgate, which stated that an obscene book, published by Stockdale, was given to the prisoners to read.

They feared to spare him lest he should report the matter to the king.

The first declared that the report that Count Rostopchin had forbidden people to leave Moscow was false; on the contrary he was glad that ladies and tradesmen's wives were leaving the city.

The Cossack's report, confirmed by horse patrols who were sent out, was the final proof that events had matured.

My … spies report that you can't keep dealers and have no idea what's going on in the underworld.

I've just started writing up my final report.

Mom let me read your report.

Haven't you read your own report?

Not that they needed a progress report.

In their rear, more than a mile from Mikulino where the forest came right up to the road, six Cossacks were posted to report if any fresh columns of French should show themselves.

He'd let her live, knowing she was obligated to report everything to Damian and powerful enough to be dismissive of any threat she might cause.

The sheriff's office was located only a few blocks east of Bird Song, behind the County Court House, where Fred O'Connor would report for jury duty the following Tuesday.

If it weren't for the joy of hearing the usual glowing report, the conference would almost be a waste of time – almost.

There were no media reports, but one intelligence spot report described the carnage.

The messenger held out a small thumb drive with what Kris hoped contained a report identifying the two shapeshifter demons.  He left, and Kris plugged the thumb drive into his small PDA.  A single file was on the drive, and he opened it.

He spoke to Harrigan, who was filling out a report on a daylight burglary.

Unless his body floats in with a bullet hole in the head or he gets pinched for speeding in Vegas, it's going down as an accident in my report.

Dr. Blanchard went up to Fred's room while the police followed Dean around the downstairs, filling out their report.

Dean had polished the report, adding more posi­tive detail but not in any way referencing the Scranton connection, if there was one.

It was strange reading your report on Jeff—hearing what everyone thought of him.

You didn't mention anything about the Whitney Motel in the report.

While he knew he should report his suspicion of being bugged, he feared having to answer questions about his clandestine work in the Byrne matter.

He didn't even bother to report this latest break-in.

After all, the last report, if you could call it that, involved a motor home.

The station nearest the portal had called him with the previous evening's activity report early in the morning.

Hilden entered at one point and presented the evening scouting report.

He'd get his report and leave.

They were undoubtedly getting a daily report from Keaton - which was more than she could do.

She would have to report the damage, and that meant a trip to town and a call to Scott Muldrow.

Lake Chad is supposed to have been known by report to Ptolemy, and is identified by some writers with the Kura lake of the middle ages.