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Definitions: Rapport |
RapportNoun1. Relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people. 2. A feeling of sympathetic understanding. 3. Sympathetic compatibility. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rapport" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Rapport \Rap*port"\, noun. [French expression, from rapporter to bring again or back, to refer; prefix re- re- apporter to bring, from Latin expression apporter to bring, from Latin expression apportare. Compare to Report.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | 2)a relationship of mutual sympathy and understanding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Achieving rapport with someone may come naturally, but it may not. There may be good chemistry, there may not. If you are having difficulty, then the way to establish rapport is to enter the world view of the other person, to accept their view of the world. Moreover there are subtle techniques you can use such as matching body posture, maintaining eye contact and matching breathing rhythm. Some of these techniques are explored in neurolinguistic programming, a branch of psychology. If rapport is established, then instead of being out of step with the other person, you are in step. You find that you have built a foundation for a more effective give-and-take relationship. Your point of view receives more generous consideration.
A classic if unusual example of rapport can be found in the book "Uncommon Therapy" by Jay Haley (ISBN 0393310310), about the psychotherapeutic intervention techniques of Milton Erickson. Erickson developed the ability to enter the world view of his patients and, from that vantage point (having established rapport), he was able to make extremely effective interventions (to help his patients overcome life problems).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rapport."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| RAS | French | Rapport d'absorption du sodium | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RapportSynonyms: accord (n), compatibility (n), resonance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Relation | Related, connected; implicated, associated, affiliated, allied to; en rapport, in touch with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rapport |
| English words defined with "rapport": connect. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rapport": COMMUNITY WORKER, CORRECTIVE THERAPIST, CUSTOMS PATROL OFFICER ♦ EMPLOYER RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE ♦ POLICE LIEUTENANT, COMMUNITY RELATIONS, POLICE OFFICER, SAFETY INSTRUCTION ♦ SALESPERSON-DEMONSTRATOR, PARTY PLAN. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rapport" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (account, record, report, scholary, scholary report), Dutch (account, record, report, scholary report), French (account, affinity, bearing, communication, connection, connexion, link, nexus, proceedings, profit, rapport, ratio, record, reference, relation, relevance, report, respect, yield), Frisian (report card), German (account, rapport, record, report), Norwegian (dispatch), Swedish (account, dispatch, record, report, return). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Rapport från Stockholms sexträsk (1974) Aktuell Rapport Video 8 (1994) Le Rapport Darty (1989) Rapport fra en baggård (1982) Anatomie d'un rapport (1976) | |
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Business | Foreign companies may follow suit and develop close contacts and rapport with end-user industries, importers and agencies concerned. (references) | |
Pakistan and China have agreed to joint program in the field of Science and Technology with emphasis on greater rapport between software companies. (references) | ||
Therefore, a strong rapport with local officials as well as a keen understanding of French / European legislation, regulations and standards are essential to working in this market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Switzerland | Nevertheless, there is no substitute for establishing a personal rapport with one's Swiss business partner. (references) |
Chad | With the exception of Libya, where relations go up and down, Chad has generally good rapport with its neighbors. (references) | |
Barbados | Early contact and rapport with Labor Ministry officials and union leaders by foreign investors could pay handsome dividends in later labor harmony. (references) | |
Trade | Japan | Moreover, a firm's ability to borrow may also be based on its personal relationships and rapport with bank officials rather than on typical U.S. standards of credit-worthiness. (references) |
Travel | Georgia | The development of personal rapport is an extremely important part of business relationships. (references) |
Indonesia | Because Indonesians do business with "friends," people that they know, developing a rapport is crucial. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Regis Philbin | I want a guy who will develop an instant rapport with the contestant, who will make that contestant feel more confident, relax him, give them the ability to think clearly, and become his friend. |
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| "Rapport" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.99% of the time. "Rapport" is used about 266 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.99% | 258 | 18,412 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 266 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rapport": be in rapport ♦ be in rapport with ♦ En rapport ♦ in rapport with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aktuell rapport | 377 |
rapport | 157 |
aktuellt rapport | 20 |
building rapport | 17 |
d incident rapport | 10 |
aktuell ann fure kristel rapport | 9 |
furniture rapport | 9 |
rapport stage | 9 |
aktuel rapport | 8 |
financieel rapport | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rapport"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | raport (account, entrée, interrelation, message, proportion, ratio, record, report, return, write up), marrëdhënie (companionship, connection, connexion, intercourse, link, relation, relationship, term), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying). (various references) | |
Arabic | علاقة (bond, connection, connexion, link, linkage, nexus, relation, relationship, relevance, respect, runner, shroud, tie), صلة (communication, connection, connexion, copula, link, linkage, reference, relation, relationship, tie, touch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съгласие (accord, accordance, agreement, approval, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concurrence, congruence, consensus, consent, consonance, consort, fiat, grant, harmony, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, unity, yea, yes), разбирателство (amity, sympathy, understanding, unity), хармония (accord, agreement, balance, concord, euphony, harmony, tune, union, unison, unity), връзка чрез медиум. (various references) | |
Chinese | 交往. (various references) | |
Czech | ztotožnìní, vztah (bearing, cognation, intercourse, link, regard, relation, relationship), vzájemné porozumìní, spojení (combination, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, link, relation, union). (various references) | |
Danish | rapport CD4/CD8 inversion (CD4/CD8 rapport inversion), emotionelt baand (affective rapport). (various references) | |
Dutch | omkering van het T4/T8 quotiint (CD4/CD8 rapport inversion), CD4/CD8-ratio daling (CD4/CD8 rapport inversion), affectieve relaties (affective rapport). (various references) | |
Farsi | مناسبت (Adequacy, Attune, Decorum, Felicity, Pertinence), نسبت (Blood, Cognation, Kinship, Proportion, Ratio, Relation, Relationship, Respect, Scale), توافق (Accord, Accordance, Adhesion, Agreement, Analogy, Band, Coincidence, Compromise, Concord, Concurrence, Consistency, Settlement, Understanding), سازگاری (Accord, Adjustment, Amenity, Compatibility, Consistency), ربط (Concern, Contiguity, Correlation, Juncture, Paraphrase, Relevance). (various references) | |
Finnish | CD4/CD8-suhteen kääntyminen (CD4/CD8 rapport inversion). (various references) | |
French | rapport (ratio). (various references) | |
German | rapport (account, record, report), verhältnis (affair, attitude, footing, involvement, liaison, love affair, proportion, rate, ratio, relation, relations, relationship, understanding), beziehung (affinity, connection, contact, correlation, footing, pull, relation, relational, relationship, respect), Übereinstimmung (accord, accordance, agreement, analogy, concordance, concurrence, conformability, conformity, congruence, consensus, consistence, consonance, correlation, match). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπάθεια (compassion, liking, sympathy), επικοινωνία (commune, communication, communion, intercourse, liaison, shunt), αρμονική σχέση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | זיק" (affinity, attachment, bond, link, linkage, linking, relation, spark, sympathy, tie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyetértés (accord, accordance, agreement, amiability, amity, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, consort, harmony, understanding, unity), összhang (accord, accordance, chime, concert, concordance, conformity, consonance, consonancy, consort, correspondence, diapason, harmony, symphony, unison), szoros kapcsolat (close connection, intimate connection, marriage), kapcsolat (acquaintanceship, affair, affiliation, articulation, association, attach, conjunction, connection, connexion, dealings, hookup, intercommunication, liaison, link, link up, linkage, linking, nexus, passages, platonics, relation, relationship). (various references) | |
Italian | rapporto (account, bearing, bulletin, comparison, concern, connection, connexion, contact, gear, intercourse, minutes, privity, rate, ratio, reference, relation, relationship, report, return, statement, story, touch, truck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 交感 (mutual sympathy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うか" (around town, barter, bulky, clearing, corona, exchange, exchange of cordialities, exchange of courtesies, facing the winter, favourable impression, fine fellow, fraternization, future problems, future trouble, good feeling, good will, high official, interchange, mutual sympathy, official residence, on the street, publication, reciprocity, steel pipe, substitution, the public, the world, voluminous). (various references) | |
Korean | 일치 (Accordance, According, Coincidence, Consensus, matching). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apportray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | harmonia (accord, accordance, arrangement, balance, chime, concord, congeniality, congruence, consistence, consistency, consonance, correspondence, Diapason, harmony, keeping, music, oneness, peace, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unity), conformidade (abidance, accordance, agreement, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity), conexão (attachment, connected, connectedness, connection, connexion, junction, liaison, link, nipple, related cases, relation, relationship, tag, termination, tie in, trunk), comunicação (communication, contributed paper, contribution, conveyance, errand, intercourse, intimation, message, notice, notification, paper, touch). (various references) | |
Romanian | raport (account, bearing, connection, memoir, ratio, record, reference, relation, relationship, report, respect, return, statement), legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity). (various references) | |
Russian | взаимопонимание (mutual understanding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veza (bond, bracing, bunch, clip, communication, connection, contact, copula, fastener, fastening, liaison, ligament, link, nexus, relation, stay, tie, touch, union), prisnost (familiarity, intimacy, intimity, nearness). (various references) | |
Spanish | entendimiento (access, comprehension, discernment, grasp, intellect, judgement, judgment, mind, understanding, wit), conformidad (abidance, accordance, acquiescence, adherence, adhesion to an existing contract, agreement, compliance, conformity, resignation), compenetración, buena relación. (various references) | |
Swedish | förbindelse (alliance, association, bond, communication, concern, connection, connexion, contact, engagement, interconnection, intercourse, junction, liaison, link, recognizance, relation, service, undertaking). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเป็นมิตร (camaraderie, friendliness, goodwill, neighborliness, neighbourliness), ความปรอง"องกัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | uyum (accommodation, accord, accordance, balance, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, congruity, consecution, consistence, consistency, consonance, harmony, keeping, proportion, rhythm, scheme, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), dostça ilişki (amity), anlaşma (accord, agreement, alliance, arrangement, axis, bargain, compact, composition, concert, concord, conspiracy, contract, covenant, deal, entente, hookup, pact, settlement, understanding). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вза"морозуміння (sympathy), зв'язок (association, bonding, bracer, catena, chain, coherence, communication, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, join, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, pertinence, pertinency, relationship, thread, tie). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quan hệ (communion, touch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rapport": rapporteur, rapporteurs, rapports. (additional references) | |
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"Rapport" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apport, Dapporto, Frappart, rapaport, rapart, rapoor, rapoport, rapor, raport, Rapphorst, rappo, rappor, rapporat, rappore, rapprt, raprot, repport, rhapport, Ruport, ruppert. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rapport" (pronounced rapô"r) |
| 3 | -p ô" r | outpour, pore, pour, spore. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-p-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: parrot, raptor. | |
-2 letters: aport. | |
-3 letters: atop, orra, parr, part, port, prao, prat, proa, prop, rapt, rato, roar, rota, taro, tarp, tora, torr, trap, trop. | |
-4 letters: apt, art, oar, oat, opt, ora, ort, pap, par, pat, pop, pot, pro, rap, rat, rot, tao, tap, tar, top, tor. | |
-5 letters: ar, at, op, or, pa, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-p-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: rapports. | |
+2 letters: apparitor, cartopper, paratroop. | |
+3 letters: apparitors, cartoppers, paratroops, preparator, propagator, propraetor, rapporteur. | |
+4 letters: appreciator, approbatory, appropriate, cryptograph, dipterocarp, expropriate, paratrooper, perpetrator, perpetuator, petrography, postprimary, praetorship, preparation, preparators, preparatory, propagators, propitiator, propraetors, proprietary, rapporteurs, reapportion, tamperproof, topographer, typographer. | |
+5 letters: appreciators, appreciatory, appropriated, appropriates, appropriator, carrottopped, cryptographs, cryptography, dipterocarps, expropriated, expropriates, expropriator, paratroopers, participator, perpetration, perpetrators, perpetuators, perspiration, perspiratory, petrographer, petrographic, photographer, praetorships, preceptorial, precipitator, preoperative, preparations, preponderant, preponderate, propitiators, propitiatory, proportional, reapportions, rephotograph, spectrograph, superpatriot, topographers, typographers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 70 70 6F 72 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .--. .--. --- .-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a p p o r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0070 0070 006F 0072 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52678282818486 |
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