Statement

Definition: Statement

Statement

Noun

1. A message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day".

2. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true".

3. (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata".

4. A nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention".

5. The act of affirming or asserting or stating something.

6. (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program.

7. A document showing credits and debits.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "statement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Finance

Meteorology & Standards

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Statement

Accounts

Books, account book, ledger; day book, cash book, pass book; journal; debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account; account current; balance, balance sheet; compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts; profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts.

Affirmation

Noun: affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.

Answer

Noun: answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript, rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement.

Description

Unfold a tale; (disclose) ; tell; give an account of, render an account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement.

Noun: description, account, statement, report; expose; (disclosure) specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief; (abstract); return; (record); catalogue raisonne; (list); guidebook; (information).

Information

Case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news; return; (record); account; (description); statement; (affirmation).

Untruth

Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.

Crosswords: Statement

You don't understand that this car makes a statement. (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies)

It was a statement! (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

This costume happens to be a protest statement. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

A statement no doubt once also made by your mother (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

Well, go ahead, make a statement. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

It's like kids hang on every single statement we make (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

Sleeping on the job: I wasn’t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm! (references; author: unknown)

Helpless Maiden Makes an 'I' Statement (1999)

A Statement of Affairs (1993)

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)

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Books

• The White Sands Incident Including an Extraterrestrial Statement (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Life Company Annual Statement Handbook (reference)

• Property & Casualty Annual Statement Handbook (reference)

• Statement (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Strawberry Statement (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Statement of an Antirider (reference)

• Statement of Direction (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Avery Inkjet Greeting Cards (25) & Statement Size Envelopes 5.5X8.5In (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The new members of the Ananias Club are going to issue a statement. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brownell amplifies statement. Credit: Library of Congress.

Williamsburg Savings Bank, Brooklyn, New York. Copy of first statement, 1852. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. (reference)

The grounds for such objection shall be set forth in a reasoned statement addressed to the Director, who shall circulate it to all the Members of the Permanent Organisation. (reference)

Unless adequate preventive measures are taken to dispel the compulsion inherent in custodial surroundings, no statement obtained from the defendant can truly be the product of his free choice. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I must think your statement by no means fair

This single statement took the scientific world by storm

But the dining out, being, as I have stated, a constant element, does not in the least affect a comparative statement like this

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Health

Each Policy Statement includes references. (references)

The full text of the consensus panel's statement follows. (references)

The AAP policy statement appeared in the May 2001 issue of the journal Pediatrics. (references)

Business

This is the second such statement signed to date in the Western Hemisphere. (references)

Capitalized interest can usually be found in footnotes or the face of the income statement. (references)

A statement of compliance from the manufacturer is sufficient to allow a product to be sold on the market. (references)

Children

Korea

In a 1998 statement, the UNCRC criticized "de facto discrimination" in the country against children with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Lebanon

The prosecutor claimed that the statement could provoke attacks against the country. (references)

Ghana

The NDC issued a statement apologizing for the incident and disassociating itself with the assault. (references)

Discrimination

Mexico

Human rights groups immediately criticized the statement and lodged a formal complaint with the CNDH. In Jalisco, the state with the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases (estimated at 6,136), activists have created a commission to monitor discriminatory attitudes and promote additional training of medical personnel. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

Please refer to the Investment Climate Statement. (references)

Korea

The tender announcement must contain a statement that the bid is covered by the GPA. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

They signed a joint press statement saying their conflict was over. (references)

Malaysia

One instance of this practice led the Bar Council in July 1999 to issue a statement of concern. (references)

Somalia

The DIJHRC also issued a statement that criticized human rights abuses by rival militias in Mogadishu. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

The consultation's closing statement called for the holding of a congress comprised of the entire Papuan community. (references)

Brazil

In December the federal attorney's office filed a statement supporting the restoration of demarcated lands of the Caramuru-Catarina Paraguacu reserve to the Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae tribe. (references)

Minorities

India

The fear of conversion of Hindus and Muslims by Christians was highlighted in a August 15 statement by Prime Minister Vajpayee. (references)

Political Economy

Niger

During the year, the forces continued to abide by their statement; however, members of the security forces committed abuses. (references)

Panama

The hesitation is due, in part, to failed government promotion as well as a confusing, unclear GOP statement of economic objectives and vision. (references)

Oman

There has been no public statement made by the Government noting the end of the 2-year period since issuance of the Basic Charter, nor has a new target date for implementation been proposed. (references)

Political Rights

Turkey

These charges were based on a statement by HADEP on the occasion of World Peace Day in September 2000. Demir's conviction under Article 169 for his remarks at the Ankara Provincial Convention were also suspended. (references)

Guinea

Observers from various organizations affiliated chiefly with developing countries issued a statement that found no fault with the election-day vote-casting process; however, observers from European and other credible foreign organizations did not endorse that statement, which was issued before the election results were announced and which did not address the registration, campaigning, and vote-counting processes. (references)

Trade

Argentina

It is optional to put a statement indicating such a process. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

Under customs regulations, travelers may bring up to $10,000 in cash into Ukraine without special permission; more than $10,000 requires a written statement by the traveler. (references)

Women

Morocco

On October 17, the AMDH issued a statement in support of these demands, but refused to present its case before the Consultative Commission. (references)

Kuwait

The police and the courts generally seek to resolve family disputes informally and may ask the offending spouse to sign a statement affirming that he agrees to end the abuse. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The Government also has not made a public statement on the eradication of such labor or established a national program with that objective. (references)

Indonesia

In February the Government signed a joint labor statement with Bangladesh, India, and Nepal in a Bangkok session of the Regional Southeast Asia Trafficking Convention. (references)

Guatemala

The Human Rights Ombudsman's Office can investigate union complaints and issue a statement, but the office has no enforcement powers beyond attempting to resolve the situation through publicity and moral suasion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "statement": a wry statement ♦ account statement ♦ accounting statement ♦ average statement ♦ bald statement ♦ bank statement ♦ case statement ♦ cautious statement ♦ comparative statement ♦ condensed statement ♦ consolidation statement ♦ Counter statement ♦ declaration statement ♦ declarative statement ♦ detailed statement ♦ dim statement ♦ draw up a statement ♦ earning statement ♦ environmental impact statement ♦ equivocal statement ♦ false statement ♦ financial statement ♦ flush statement ♦ income statement ♦ Indicative statement ♦ joint statement ♦ make a statement ♦ mathematical statement ♦ month statement ♦ official statement ♦ operating statement ♦ policy statement ♦ precarious statement ♦ pro forma statement ♦ profit and loss statement ♦ protocol implementation conformance statement ♦ public statement ♦ publish a statement ♦ qualify a statement ♦ salary statement ♦ statement made during an interview ♦ statement of account ♦ statement of affairs ♦ statement of appeal ♦ statement of capability to implement a project ♦ statement of case ♦ statement of claim ♦ statement of costs ♦ statement of ethics ♦ statement of intent ♦ statement of loss and gain ♦ statement of responsibility ♦ summary statement ♦ sweeping statement ♦ switch statement ♦ there is no reason to doubt his statement ♦ true statement ♦ unconditional statement ♦ under statement ♦ untrue statement ♦ value statement ♦ work completion statement. Additional references.

Beginning with "statement": statement-kind, statement-the.

Ending with "statement": counter-statement, mis-statement, over-statement, re-statement.

Containing "statement": go-into-groups-discuss-an-important-issue-and-find-a-dramatic-statement-for-us-to-discuss.

Afrikaans

verklaring (declaration, proclamation), beginselverklaring (declaration, declaration of policy, platform, programme, statement of policy), aangifte (declaration, proclamation). (various references)

Albanian

paraqitje (adduction, demonstration, designation, display, face, figure, guise, introduction, likeness, make, manifestation, portrayal, preferment, presence, presentation, production, profile, recommendation, representation, showing, smartness, submission), formulim (form, formularization, formulation, wording), ekspozim (display, exhibition, exposure, layout, parade, set out, show), caktim (allocation, allotment, appointment, assessment, assignation, assignment, constitution, demarcation, nomination). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتورة (bill, check, invoice, receipt), ‏كلام (conversation, remark, speech, talk, talking, utterance, words), ‏كشف الحساب, ‏تقرير (account, advisory, confirmation, decision, determination, record, report), ‏تعبير (articulation, enunciation, expressing, expression, locution, look, manifestation, mien, mouth, phrase, term, utterance, wording), ‏تصريح (announcement, declaration, deposition, notification, permit, predication, proclamation, pronouncement, quote), ‏تأكيد (affirmation, confirmation, substantiation), ‏عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), ‏إفادة, ‏بيان (bulletin, catalogue, declaration, diction, handout, insertion, list, notice, notification, piano, proclamation, program, programme, pronouncement, report, representation, rhetoric). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свидетелско показание (attestation, proof), твърдение (affirmation, allegation, assertion, averment, claim, contention, contestation, position, predication, proposition), казване, официален отчет, отчет (account, report), изявление (allegation, declaration, outgiving, release), изразяване (expression, rendition, signification, utterance), излагане (display, recitation). (various references)

Chinese 

說法 (version, wording), 聲明書 , 聲明 (declaration), 發言 (utterance), 声明 (Declaration, disclaimer). (various references)

Czech

zpráva (account, advice, call, communication, despatch, dispatch, intimation, item, message, news, notice, report, tidings, word), výpovìï (dismissal, resignation, utterance, warning), výkaz (register, report, return), tvrzení (affirmation, allegation, assertion, claim, contention, predicament, predication, proposition, say so, thesis), prohlášení (affirmation, asseveration, avowal, declaration, deposition, entry, pronouncement, quote, utterance), přehled (cadastre, compendium, digest, outline, summary, survey, synopsis, table, view), údaj (datum, detail). (various references)

Danish

opgivelse (declaration, proclamation), angivelse (declaration, proclamation). (various references)

Dutch

verklaring (account, declaration, explanation, proclamation), uitspraak (adjudication, decision, declaration, proclamation, pronunciation, verdict), declaratie (declaration, proclamation), aangifte (accusation, declaration, proclamation). (various references)

Esperanto

deklaro (declaration, proclamation). (various references)

Farsi 

گفته (Dictum, Doctrine, Sentence), تقریر (Emprise), توضیح (Comment, Explanation, Gloss, Paraphrase, Treatise), اعلامیه (Act, Communique, Declaration, Manifest, Manifesto), اظهار (Proposal, Remark, Say, Showing, Testimony, Utterance), شرح (Circumstance, Description, Explanation, Exposition, Geography, Gloss, Innuendo, Legend, Narrative, Recitation, Relation, Sketch, Story, Tale, Treatise), بیان (Declaration, Diction, Explanation, Exposition, Expression, Lip, Locution, Pronunciation, Quotation, Recitation, Remark). (various references)

Finnish

selitys (comment, explanation, key legend), väite (allegation, argument, assertion, claim, plea), toteamus, tiedote (announcement, bulletin, communiqué, handout), raportti (report), luokitus (classification, grading), lausunto (opinion, report), lausuma (utterance), lause (clause, sentence), käsky (command, commandment, order), ilmoitus (ad, advertisement, announcement, information, notice, notification). (various references)

French

déclaration, constatation. (various references)

Frisian

program (declaration of policy, platform, programme, statement of policy). (various references)

German

Angabe (account, bragging, declaration, detail, giving, instruction, proclamation, serve, service, showing off, specification), erklärung (assertion, avowal, declaration, explanation, exposition, illustration, legend, proclamation, profession, pronouncement), darstellung (account, acting, depiction, description, embodiment, figure, phantom, picture, portrayal, presentation, presentment, representation, schema, version), behauptung (allegation, assertion, averment, claim, declaration, position, pronouncement, proposition, thesis), aussage (argument, attestation, declaration, evidence, message, opinion, predicate, predication, proposition, report, testimony), Anweisung (allocation, assignation, briefing, command, direction, directions, directive, instructing, instruction, instructions, money order, payment, payment slip, postal order, transfer), abrechnung (accounting, balancing, cashing up, deduction, invoice, payoff, revenge). (various references)

Greek 

δήλωση (averment, bid, declaration, denotation, predication, pronouncement, propitiatory, proposition), κατάσταση (case, circumstance, condition, fettle, list, plight, predicament, situation, state, status). (various references)

Hebrew 

אמירה (saying, talk, utterance), חווי (indication), חשבון (account, arithmetic, bill, check, invoice, reckoning, score, tally), אחויה, התבטאות (expressing oneself, expression), הבעה (expression, utterance), הצהרה (attestation, declaration, manifest, predication, proclamation, pronouncement, protestation, testimony), דין וחשבון (account, report), גלוי דעת (manifesto, public statement). (various references)

Hungarian

vallomás (confession, deposition), nyilatkozat (declaration, dictum, dictumta, full statement, manifesto, proclamation, profession, pronouncement), kijelentés (assertion, dictum, enunciation, pronouncement, protestation, saying), bejelentés (announcement, annunciation, appointment, declaration, notice, notification), állítás (affirmation, allegation, assertion, averment, claim, contention, naked facts, phasing, predicate, predication, reassertation, recovery, representation, say so, say-so). (various references)

Indonesian

pembabaran (development). (various references)

Italian

dichiarazione (avowal, bid, declaration, handout, proclamation, pronouncement, protestation), istruzione (apprenticeship, culture, direction, directions, doctrine, education, egalitarianism, instruction, instructions, learning, schooling, training). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陳述 (declaration), 仰せ (command, wishes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおせ (command, wishes), テーゼ (thesis), しんこく (China under the Manchus, filing a return, formal complaint made by a victim, Japan, land of the gods, new grain, notification, report, serious), せいめいしょ, せいめい (declaration, existence, full name, life, proclamation, pure and clear, reputation), めいぶん (famous literary composition, inscription, just cause, justification, moral duty, reputation), めいげん (declaration, wise saying), ろんじゅつ (setting forth), ステートメント , げんせつ (remark), げんめい (assertion, declaration, peremptory command, strict order), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, raw, remark, serious, string, word), ちんじゅつ (declaration). (various references)

Korean 

계산서 (Bill). (various references)

Malay

rencana (declaration of policy, platform, programme, statement of policy), acara (declaration of policy, platform, programme, statement of policy). (various references)

Manx

coontys (calculation, commentary, count, financial account). (various references)

Papiamen

deklarashon (declaration, proclamation). (various references)

Pig Latin

atementstay.(various references)

Polish

program (declaration of policy, platform, programme, statement of policy). (various references)

Portuguese

instrução (coaching, directions, discipline, education, instruction, learning, lesson, literacy, notice, schooling, teaching, training, tuition), indicação (clue, convocation, denotation, denotement, designation, directions, fountainhead, indication, intimation, label, mark, marking, notice, pointing, sign, undertone), homologação (affirmation, confirmation, ratification, sanction), depoimento (attest, brief, declaration, evidence, proclamation, testimony), declaracão (declaration, proclamation), declaração (affidavit, assertion, declaration, outgiving, proclamation, pronouncement, protest, saying), constatação, confirmação (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, affirmation, confirmation, ratification, reiteration, testimony, verification), afirmação (affirmation, assertion, asseveration, averment, contestation, predication, pronouncement, proposition, protest, say), achado (find, finding, found). (various references)

Romanian

specificare (specification), raport (account, bearing, connection, memoir, rapport, ratio, record, reference, relation, relationship, report, respect, return), opinie (apprehension, feeling, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, regard, sentiment, thinking, view, voice), memoriu (factum, memoir, memoirs, memorial, transactions), formulare (formulation, wording), extras de cont, expunere (account, delivery, display, exhibit, exhibition, explanation, exposing, exposition, exposure, presentment, recital, relation, speech), exprimare (articulation, conveyance, expression, incoherence, incoherency, language, manifestation, phrase, utterance), expozeu (expose), enunţ (enunciation, utterance), declaraţie (affidavit, announcement, declaration, dictum, proclamation, pronouncement, proposition, return, testimony, utterance), dare de seamã (account, record, report, return), aserţiune (affirmation, assertion), afirmaţie (affirmation, allegation, assertion, asseveration, assurance, contention, predication, proposition, say, saying). (various references)

Russian 

сообщение (announcement, communication, information, message, notice, notification, piece of information, pigeongram, transaction report), оператор (controller, instruction, operating surgeon, operation, operator, typist), заявление (allegation, application, application blank, declaration, deliverance, outgiving, plea, presentment, profession, pronouncement, protestation), бюллетень (ballot, ballot paper, bulletin, sick-leave-list). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obračun (clash, liquidation, payoff), izveštaj (account, fill in, notice, release, report, write up), izjava (aver, averment, declaration, pronouncement, testimony, utterance), iskaz (account, parole, predicate, predication, utterance). (various references)

Spanish

declaración (acknowledgement, admission, affirmation, agreement, announcement, bid, confession, consent, contract, declaration, deposition, outbreak, outgiving, permission, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, protestation, registration, representation, return, testimony, utterance), sentencia (adjudication, award, decision, dictum, judgement, judgment, order, sentence, verdict). (various references)

Swedish

uppgift (assignation, assignment, business, charge, chore, declaration, duty, function, hang task, information, job, list, mission, objekt, office, part, place, problem, question, report, role, specification, task, undertaking, work, written exercise), påstående (allegation, assertion, avowal, claim, contention, contestation, plea, predication, proposition, say so). (various references)

Turkish

söz (assurance, commitment, committal, engagement, expression, faith, pledge, plight, promise, say, saying, sentence, spiel, talk, term, upon my word, verbalism, vocable, voice, word, wordy), tarife (price list, prospectus, receipt, recipe, scale, schedule, tariff, timetable), rapor (paper, record, report, return, run down, sick certificate, sick report, write up), ifade (declaration, denotation, deposition, enunciation, evidence, expression, import, locution, phrase, proposition, recital, recital of fact, signification, term, utterance, voice), demeç (declaration, speech), bildirme (announcement, declaration, information, intimation, lodgement, lodgment), bilanço (balance, balance sheet, financial statement), beyan (asseveration, declaration, profession, pronouncement, recital, representation, the thingsI'll declare, to declare), açıklama (account, clarification, comment, commentary, declaration, definition, direction, elucidation, endorsement, explanation, explication, exposition, gloss, hearing, illumination, illustration, indorsement, instruction, paraphrase, profession). (various references)

Ukrainian

свідчення (attest, attestation, evidence, showing, vouch, warrant, witness), виклад (development, presentation, presentment, recitation, rendering, showing), заява (affirmation, allegation, application, assertion, avouchment, claim, declaration, denunciation, pronouncing, vouch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trình bày (designing, development), sự phát biểu lời tuyên bố, sự bày tỏ (delivery, development, profession, voice), bản tuyên bố. (various references)

Welsh

mynegiad (declaration). (various references)

editio, expositione, incantatio, incantationes, incantationibus. (various references)

cwide. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.