report

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin reportāre (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + portāre.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹt/

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpoət/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpoːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
   • 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48:

     Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15th c.]
3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th–18th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:

     thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene / […] / Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god

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4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15th c.]

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

5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19th c.]

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

6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19th c.]
7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19th c.]

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

   Every newspaper reported the war.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

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8. (intransitive) 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).

   The financial director reports to the CEO.

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

9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

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

10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. (obsolete) To refer.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Baldwine the Fourth Succeedeth; His Education under William the Reverend Archbishop of Tyre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 94:

      Baldwine his ſonne, the fourth of that name [Baldwin IV of Jerusalem], ſucceeded his father [Amalric of Jerusalem]: ſo like unto him, that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will ſpare the repeating his description.

12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

      a church with windows only from above […] that reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen times

• ⇒ Cantonese: port (pot¹)

report (plural reports)

1. 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).

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

   • 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian‎:

     Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.

2. Reputation.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 36”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     Certain it is that if he had been daft before, he now ran wild in his pranks, and an evil report of him was in every mouth.

3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 34”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.

   • 1889, Ambrose Bierce, The Coup de Grâce:

     He knelt upon one knee, cocked the weapon, placed the muzzle against the man's forehead, and turning away his eyes pulled the trigger. There was no report. He had used his last cartridge for the horse.

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

   Synonym: subordinate

• (piece of information): on report, report card, Gladue report
• (employee): direct report, indirect report

• → Japanese: レポート (repōto), リポート (ripōto)

• Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

Deverbal from reporter.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ/

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report m (plural reports)

1. postponement
2. deferment

• ajournement

• “report”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• porter