Word Finder - reports

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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.

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

This Josh would send reports to my father of just how rich the mine was.

You must have seen the reports.

The reports went back nearly three years and listed dates, locations and dollars expended, with each entry carefully and man­ually recording names, locations, reasons for visits and persons present.

The reports of the committees were not ready, and were carried forward to the conference of 1878.

If its contents were like the reports she'd seen in the past, it would be full medical nonsense.

Dean shrugged his shoulders and perused the reports, hoping the young man would take a hint and leave.

Receipts were attached to all reports, mostly for inexpensive meals and an occasional beer or two.

The expense reports and the personnel file from World Wide were neatly stacked on the table, but not in the same posi­tion Dean had left them the night before and his tape recorder hadn't been re-wound.

Dean spent the remainder of the work­day sorting reports and more closely reviewing the Byrne papers.

Damian sat at the desk, bent over his iPad as he scanned messages and reports from immortals across the globe.

I think Gerry has been filing her reports.

His own observation, and the reports of Mersenne, furnished his data.

The consequence of these reports of the hostility of the church led him to abandon all thoughts of publishing.

It has then met at Lambeth, and after sitting for five days for deliberation upon the fixed subjects and appointment of committees, has adjourned, to meet again at the end of a fortnight and sit for five days more, to receive reports, adopt resolutions and to put forth the encyclical letter.

Though the admission of new members is, strictly speaking, the act of the session, this duty usually devolves upon the minister, who reports his procedure to the session for approval and confirmation.

Jerusalem is the chief town of a sanjak, governed by a mutessarif, who reports directly to the Porte.

A second great service was the publication in the British Association Reports for 1833 of his "Report on the Recent Progress and Present State of certain branches of Analysis."

The tonnage of the commerce of this port amounted, according to the reports of the United States army engineers, to 107,421 tons in 1904 and to 249,174 tons in 1908, of which in the latter year nearly 80% was lumber.

The banking institutions are supervised by an inspector of finance, who reports annually to the General Assembly.

For the government of the state see The Revised Laws of Vermont (Rutland, 1881); the Vermont Legislative Directory, published biennially at Montpelier; the biennial reports of the secretary of state, the auditor, the treasurer, the commissioner of state taxes, the superintendent of education, the supervisors of the insane, &c., and the annual reports of the inspector of finance.

At first he speaks with complacence of a melee, and reports that he and his men "agreed to charge" the enemy.

Reports to the Postmaster-General upon proposals for transferring to the Post Of f ice the Telegraphs throughout the United Kingdom (1868); Special Reports from Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bills (1868, 1869); Report by Mr Scudamore on the reorganization of the Telegraph system of the United Kingdom (1871); Journ.

Statistical Society (September 1872, March 1881); Report of a Committee appointed by the Treasury to investigate the causes of the increased cost of the Telegraphic Service, &c. (1875); Reports of the Postmaster-General for 1895, &c.; Journ.

For the boarding schools, or convilli, there are only incomplete reports except f or the institutions directly dependent on the ministry of public instruction, which are comparatively few.

The fact appears to be so; he reports it.

Interesting regions, Close of known only by the scant reports of pilgrims, were made the dark the objects of attention and study; while religious zeal, ages.

In like manner Sir Thomas Roe's mission to India resulted not only in a large collection of valuable reports and letters of his own, but also in the detailed account of his chaplain Terry.

For practical studies see official reports on the Mississippi, Rhine, Seine, Elbe and other great rivers.

Besides the university library, there is the Ohio state library occupying a room in the capitol and containing in 1908 126,000 volumes, including a "travelling library" of about 36,000 volumes, from which various organizations in different parts of the state may borrow books; the law library of the supreme court of Ohio, containing complete sets of English, Scottish, Irish, Canadian, United States and state reports, statutes and digests; the public school library of about 68,000 volumes, and the public library (of about 55,000), which is housed in a marble and granite building completed in 1906.

Gold is present in some abundance in the river sand of central Liberia, and native reports speak of the far interior as being rich in gold.

Reports of territorial encroachments aroused much sympathy with Liberia in America and led in February 1909 to the appointment by President Roosevelt of a commission which visited Liberia in the summer of that year to investigate the condition of the country.

In railway mileage per io,000 inhabitants, however, Queensland, in the Australian group, reports a figure much greater than any other country; while at the other end of the list Persia holds the record for isolation.

The usual mode of publishing such reports is to forward them to railway companies concerned, as well as to the press, and on application to any one else who is interested.

The reports are subsequently included in a Blue-book and presented to parliament.

It made provision for publicity of rates and for due notice of any change in rates; it forbade pooling of freight or earnings, and required annual reports from the carriers.

The section requiring annual reports, while it led to the creation of a Bureau of Statistics, did not give the Commission power to compel complete or satisfactory answers to its requests for information.

They had been given power to require complete annual reports from carriers, with a consequent great increase in public knowledge concerning railway operation and practice.

It enacted that published rates should not be changed except on thirty days' notice, whether the change involved an increase or a decrease, and it required annual reports to be made under oath, penalties being prescribed for failure to comply with the Commission's requests for information.

Its powers have been exercised with the greatest caution, yet with consistent firmness; and the publicity which has been given to the true and detailed causes of scores and scores of railway accidents by the admirable reports of the Board of Trade inspectors has been a powerful lever in improving the railway service.

The Federal government, having authority in railway matters only when interstate traffic is affected, gathers statistics and publishes them; but in the airing of causes-the field in which the British Board of Trade has been so useful-nothing so far has been done except to require written reports monthly from the railways.

It is of beautiful appearance, and the almost tropical profusion of its growth may have led to the early erroneous reports of the densely-wooded nature of these islands.

Inquiries had been made on reports of the queen's ill-conduct, and several of her reputed lovers had been arrested.

Between its reports and those of the Census Bureau in census years there are sometimes great discrepancies.

This speech, which, according to reports, was extremely radical and denied the right of the king to disallow acts of the colonial legislature, made Henry the idol of the common people of Virginia and procured for him an enormous practice.

Recent reports also show us how much may be done in infected districts.

For the next two decennial censuses he acted as assistant-commissioner; for that of 1871 he was a commissioner, and he wrote the greater part of the reports of all.

But Josephus reports of one Onias that for avarice he withheld it.

The following approximate figures are taken from the American Jewish Year-Book for1909-1910and are based on similar estimates in the English Jewish Year-Book, the Jewish Encyclopedia, Nossig's Jiidische Statistik and the Reports of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.

He had offered himself as a candidate for the office of secretary to the Assembly of Notables which the king had just convened, and to bring his name before the public published another financial work, the Denonciation de 'agiotage, which abounded in such violent diatribes that he not only lost his election, but was obliged to retire to Tongres; and he further injured his prospects by publishing the reports he had sent in during his secret mission at Berlin.