reportverb
uk/rɪˈpɔːt/us/rɪˈpɔːrt/report verb (TELL)
B1 [ I or T ] to give a description of something or information about it to someone:
to be described by people as being or doing a particular thing although there is no real proof:
[ T ] to make a complaint to a person in authority about something or someone:
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- Witnesses reported seeing a huge orange fireball as the oil refinery exploded.
- Shortly before the crash the pilot had reported a malfunction of the aircraft's navigation system.
- Her disappearance was reported to the police department's Missing Persons Bureau.
- Do you have anything to report?
- Several journalists have been killed or injured by stray bullets while reporting on the civil war.
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Describing & telling stories
- narrate
- narration
- narrator
- omniscient narrator
- personalize
- personify
- recitation
- recite
- recount 1
- relate
- self-report
- spin
- storyteller
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report verb (GO)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to go to a place or a person and say that you are there:
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Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- hit
- hove
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch invasion
- rock
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Phrasal verb(s)
reportnoun [ C ]
uk/rɪˈpɔːt/us/rɪˈpɔːrt/report noun [ C ] (DESCRIPTION)
A2 also school report, US also report card a teacher's written statement to parents about a child's ability and performance at school
B1 a description of an event or situation:
stories for which you do not yet have real proof:
More examples
- The report contains numerous demonstrable errors.
- The prime minister issued a denial of the report that she is about to resign.
- The content of her report is shrouded in secrecy.
- We file these reports under country of origin.
- The newspaper reports of the discussion only roughly approximated to what was actually said.
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Judgments and analyses
- acquihire
- analysis
- appraisal
- assessment
- construction
- critique
- heed
- interpretation
- job evaluation
- judgment
- misjudge
- notice
- prognostication
- rap
- rating
- review
- self-assessment
- study
- time-and-motion study
- unrated
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report noun [ C ] (NOISE)
formal the loud noise of a shot:
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- jangling
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- swish
- thud
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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