TO DECLARE

Definition: DECLARE

DECLARE

Verb

1. State clearly: "He stated his name".

2. Announce officially; "The President declared war".

3. State firmly; "He declared that he was innocent".

4. Declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; " judge held that the defendant was innocent".

5. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her".

6. Authorize payments of: "declare dividends".

7. Make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?".

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Finance

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Synonym: TO DECLARE

Crosswords: TO DECLARE

We have nothing to declare! (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

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Music

• Nothin' to Declare [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

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Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. (reference)

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Business

Because of the complexity of industrial waste management, and choosing to hide behind a claim of immunity, municipalities do not respond to the requests of the industry and prefer to declare that industrial waste management is not their responsibility and pass the problem on to the central governments. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Only those Muftis (religious scholars) who have expertise in Islamic law are authorized to declare a fatwa. (references)

Greece

In the military, generally only members of the Greek Orthodox faith become officers, leading some members of other faiths to declare themselves Orthodox. (references)

Indonesia

Customs forms require entrants into the country to declare possession of Chinese publications, although significant amounts of material bypass customs and censorship procedures. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

The debtor is obliged to declare bankruptcy within 15 days of becoming insolvent. (references)

Croatia

The law obliges a debtor to declare bankruptcy within 21 days of insolvency or overburdening. (references)

Argentina

The Supreme Court has the power, first asserted in 1854, to declare legislative acts unconstitutional. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

Some legal experts also have complained that the provisions that allow the Government to declare a zone a military theater of operations, in effect, give military commanders authority over regional civilian authorities. (references)

Minorities

Uzbekistan

In addition some members of other ethnic groups choose for a variety of reasons to declare themselves to be ethnic Uzbeks. (references)

Ukraine

A census was held in December and residents were permitted to declare any nationality they wished; the results were not available by year's end. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

Several times he threatened to declare a state of civil emergency and dissolve the DPR. (references)

INDIA

State and local authorities occasionally use their power to declare strikes "illegal" and force adjudication. (references)

Nepal

The Ordinance also allows the Government to declare individuals as terrorists for up to 90 days without charges; to hold persons under house arrest; and to set up special courts for terrorists. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

Constitutional Amendment 9 authorizes the President to declare unilaterally a state of public emergency for a period of up to 14 days. (references)

Zambia

A judge granted an injunction barring the MMD from expelling the M.P.'s. The Speaker of the National Assembly subsequently came under pressure from the MMD to declare the seats of the 22 M.P.'s vacant. (references)

Jordan

The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, continues to declare publicly that it will boycott new elections unless significant changes to the one-man, one-vote provision are made. (references)

Trade

Dominican Rep

Currently, the Dominican Center for Export Promotion (CEDOPEX) implemented the use of a form to declare exports. (references)

Mexico

Failure to declare demonstration equipment upon entry entails stiff penalties including confiscation of equipment and/or costly fines. (references)

Dominican Rep

Free zone companies need only submit certifications from the National Free Zone Council to CEDOPEX (a government organization) to declare and register exports. (references)

Travel

Russia

People not intending to export more than $1,500 may pass though the nothing to declare "green lines" at incoming customs. (references)

Romania

Romanian law allows foreigners to bring up to $10,000 in cash into Romania, but requires them to declare any amount above $1,000 as well as any checks they might have upon entry. (references)

Greece

The export of foreign exchange was liberalized in May 1994. Greek and foreign travelers, however, have to declare any amount exceeding the equivalent of 2,000 EUROs upon their departure. (references)

Worker Rights

Suriname

They must appeal to the inspectorate to declare the workplace situation unsafe. (references)

Malawi

The University initially refused to negotiate with the strikers and asked the High Court to declare the strike illegal. (references)

Bulgaria

The Podkrepa labor union has complained that a 1998 amendment to a labor law has made it easier for the Government to declare a strike illegal. (references)

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Expressions using "TO DECLARE": i have to declare ♦ i have to declare yen ♦ nothing to declare ♦ To declare off ♦ To declare one's self. Additional references.

Basque

deklaratzeko. (various references)

Catalan

declarar (declare, state). (various references)

Chinese 

宣佈 (to announce, to proclaim), 宣 (to announce), 布 (cloth, spread, to announce, to make known, to spread). (various references)

Danish

fastsætte udbytte (to make payable). (various references)

Dutch

betaalbaar stellen (to make payable). (various references)

Estonian

deklareerida. (various references)

French

mettre en payement (to make payable), mettre en paiement (to make payable). (various references)

French Canadian

déclarer. (various references)

German

zahlbar stellen (to make payable). (various references)

Greek 

αναγγελία πληρωμής (to make payable). (various references)

Haitian Creole

deklare. (various references)

Hungarian

nyilatkozik (have one's say, profess, to commend, to commit oneself to sg, to pussyfoot), kijelent (assert, declare, enunciate, profess, pronounce, say, set forth, state, tell, to assert, to asseverate, to enunciate, to pronounce, to state, to vow), deklarál (declare, state). (various references)

Italian

mettere in pagamento (to make payable), dichiarare (adjudge, affirm, allege, aver, avouch, bid, certify, declare, declare oneself, explain, profess, pronounce, protest, rule, state). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�し渡す (to announce, to order, to tell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いいきる (to assert, to state definitively), いいはなつ, もうしたてる (to plead), もうしわたす (to announce, to order, to tell). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

declarar (adjudicate, allege, announce, annunciate, assert, aver, certify, converse, declare, demonstrate, denounce, enounce, enunciate, intimate, invalidate, manifest, profess, pronounce, say, show, speak, state). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

declarar. (various references)

Spanish

hacer pagadero (to make payable). (various references)

Turkish

edecek, beyan (asseveration, declaration, profession, pronouncement, recital, representation, statement, the thingsI'll declare). (various references)

Ukrainian

нічого пред'явити (nothing to declare), нічого показати (nothing to declare). (various references)

renuntio. (various references)

frâmraot, framraomi, nimraomnô, nivaêdhayemi. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: corelated, relocated.

-1 letter: coleader, corelate, decorate, decretal, recoaled, relocate.

-2 letters: alerted, altered, caroled, catered, cerated, cleared, cleated, cordate, created, creedal, declare, delator, elector, electro, leotard, located, locater, ocreate, reacted, redcoat, relaced, related, treacle, treadle.

-3 letters: areole, carted, cartel, cerate, cereal, claret, coaled, coaler, coated, coatee, coater, colder, colead, colter, cradle, crated, create, credal, creole, dartle, dealer.

+1 letter: correlated, ectodermal, edulcorate, percolated.

+2 letters: coldhearted, decelerator, edulcorated, edulcorates, operculated, reallocated.

+3 letters: deceleration, decelerators, dechlorinate, decoratively, endotracheal, reinoculated, uncorrelated.

+4 letters: adrenalectomy, coldheartedly, concelebrated, conglomerated, considerately, coresidential, countervailed, decarboxylate, decelerations, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, deprecatorily, electrodermal, electroplated, preadolescent, reconsolidate, sclerodermata, tetrachloride, valedictories.

+5 letters: collateralized, concentratedly, counterclaimed, counterrallied, decarboxylated, decarboxylates, dichloroethane, electrodynamic, overidealistic, overspeculated, preadolescents, reconsolidated, reconsolidates, rediscountable, tetrachlorides.