Definitions for reports

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reports re·port

Spelling: [ri-pawrt, -pohrt]

IPA: /rɪˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt/

Reports is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in reports (eoprrst).

Definitions for reports

noun

1. an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.:
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., especially as taken down for publication.
5. a loud noise, as from an explosion:
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, especially 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:

Idioms

1. on report, Military. (of personnel) under restriction pending disciplinary action.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry and repeat, as an answer or message; repeat, as what one has heard.
2. to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation.
3. to give or render a formal account or statement of:
4. to send back (a bill, amendment, etc.) to a legislative body with a formal report outlining findings and recommendations (often followed by out):
5. to make a charge against (a person), as to a superior:
6. to make known the presence, condition, or whereabouts of:
7. to present (oneself) to a person in authority, as in accordance with requirements.
8. to take down (a speech, lecture, etc.) in writing.
9. to write an account of (an event, situation, etc.), as for publication in a newspaper.
10. to relate or tell.

verb (used without object)

1. to prepare, make, or submit a report of something observed, investigated, or the like.
2. to serve or work as a reporter, as for a newspaper.
3. to make one's condition or whereabouts known, as to a person in authority:
4. to present oneself duly, as at a place:

Origin of reports

1325-75; (v.) Middle English reporten Middle French reporter, Old French Latin reportāre to carry back, equivalent to re- re- + portāre to carry (see Examples for reports

There was a report that she had first worn it at her christening; the report originated with herself.

The moment a report of a gun is heard they'll swarm up to this room and get you.

Similarly, a recent NPR report covered the challenges many police departments are having recruiting officers of color.

So I am to report my discharge to you, and ask you for my wages.

Only, my dear, do not disgrace my report when you come to supper.

Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.

The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.

Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?

When the man threatened to report him for harassment to the NOPD, Farrell arrested him.

There's a report to-day that —— cannot hold out much longer.