statement

A declaration or remark.

Adjective

  1. Decisive.
    • Gabriel Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner as Arsenal earned a statement victory over defending Premier League champions Manchester City at Emirates Stadium. - 2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English statement From state + -ment.

Noun

  1. A declaration or remark.
    • make a statement
    • publish a statement
    • utter a statement
  2. A presentation of opinion or position.
  3. A document that summarizes financial activity.
    • a bank statement
  4. An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
    • In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement. -...
    • However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range. - 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 174:

Forms

statements

Synonyms

declaration expression remark statement

Hypernyms

talk writing

Hyponyms

affirmation allegation argument assertion avowal axiom claim comment corollary lemma nonsense notice note observation postulate proclamation protestation supposition theorem saying slander

Related

true false general specific public private clear first last official brief formal bold full detailed simple prepared

Derived

account statement bank statement blanket statement costatement counter statement counterstatement diversity statement doorknob statement environmental impact statement e-statement fashion statement financial statement forestatement if-then statement impact statement income statement make a statement metastatement microstatement mission statement misstatement motherhood statement multistatement nonstatement

Verb

  1. To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK, a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

Origin

Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.

Forms

statements statementing statemented

Wikipedia

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