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statement Definition

state·ment (stāt′mənt)

noun

    1. an act of stating
    2. the thing stated; account, declaration, assertion, etc.
    1. an abstract, usually itemized, of a financial account a bank statement
    2. a listing of charges for goods or services; bill

statement Synonyms

statement

n.

  1. The act of stating

    utterance, comment, allegation, declaration, observation, remark, assertion, averment, profession, acknowledgment, avowal, protestation, assurance, asseveration, affirmation; see also announcement 1.

  2. A prepared announcement

    description, narrative, recital; see announcement 2, declaration 2.

  3. A statement of account

    bill, charge, reckoning, account, record, receipt, report, annual report, budget, audit, affidavit, balance sheet.

statement Law Definition

n

A declaration of fact or an allegation by a witness; a piece of sworn testimony. See also closing statement, evidence, and opening statement.
statement Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • intent: At the end, Kirk makes a statement of intent.
  • principle: In part this generality results from the manifesto being a statement of basic principles, rather than a schedule of detailed policies.

Preposition: on

  • www.poetrymagazines.org.uk: For further information about copyright, please refer to the copyright statement on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk.

Adjective modifier

  • forward-looking: Voice of the for forward-looking statements retain the standard.
  • written: The written statement of appeal must specify the grounds on which the appeal is being made.
  • financial: The company is also required to file a copy of its financial statements once a year.
  • benchmark: These standards are likely to be adopted by the QAA as the subject benchmark statements for engineering.
  • joint: The attached joint statement is issued by the Shadow Executive of the Shadow NHS Staff Council on 11 June 2004.
  • false: Charges of murder, dereliction of duty and making a false statement are likely, people familiar with the case said Friday.

Converse of object

  • prepare: Prepare a statement of events supported by relevant members of the crew.
  • make: Gambling took in statements made in action with real.
  • contain: He acknowledged that the petition contained a statement that Part 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules applied to the claim.
  • publish: The FSA plans to publish a feedback statement on the paper in July.
  • follow: With which of the following statements do you agree or disagree?

Noun used with modifier

  • privacy: Privacy Statement The Champion Group respects your right to privacy.
  • mission: The mission statement: To design a website which reflects the interests of our year group.
  • witness: May we have a statement from a Home Office Minister about the guidance given to police forces on witness statements?
  • benchmark: D Confirmation of conformity with the relevant subject benchmark statement Program aims and outcomes are modeled on the subject benchmark statements.
  • bank: I have now received a bank statement showing our final balance.
  • copyright: The copyright statement on my pre-recorded videotape refers to ' domestic use only ' .
statement Quotes

Every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

—Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)

   We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

—Ayer, SirAlfred Jules

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

  He read partly for information, partly for comparison, partly for insight, partly for the sheer joy of felicitous statement.He delighted particularly inquotationswhich distilled the essence of an argument.

—Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr

Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.

—Malamud, Bernard

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of militaryauthority, because I believethattheWar isbeing deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain