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Declaration
//ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən// noun
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Noun
- 1 An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation. countable, uncountable
"The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […]."
- 2 a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote wordnet
- 3 Specifically, a declaration of love. archaic, countable, uncountable
"I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration."
- 4 a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) wordnet
- 5 A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a formal public statement wordnet
- 7 The act or process of declaring. countable, uncountable
- 8 (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction wordnet
- 9 The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed. countable, uncountable
- 10 (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make wordnet
- 11 In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued. countable, uncountable
- 12 a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties wordnet
- 13 The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.
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