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Reporting   /ripˈɔrtɪŋ/  /rɪpˈɔrtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Report  v. t.  (past & past part. reported; pres. part. reporting)  
1.
To refer. (Obs.) "Baldwin, his son,... succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description."
2.
To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. "There is no man that may reporten all."
3.
To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported. "It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel."
4.
To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.
5.
To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. (Obs. or R.) "A church with windows only from above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times."
6.
(Parliamentary Practice) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
7.
To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.
8.
To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.
9.
To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.
To be reported, or To be reported of, to be spoken of; to be mentioned, whether favorably or unfavorably.
To report one's self, to betake one's self, as to a superior or one to whom service is due, and be in readiness to receive orders or do service.
Synonyms: To relate; narrate; tell; recite; describe.


Report  v. i.  
1.
To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.
2.
To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.
3.
To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.





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"Reporting" Quotes from Famous Books



... talk at the Doctor's establishment about the event of the season, an event that filled the boys' brains, seniors and juniors, for weeks before it took place, and brought forth a rebuke from the Doctor one morning at breakfast, for the masters were reporting that the papers sent in by the boys were very much wanting in merit. There was a report, too, going about that Monsieur Brohanne had been seen walking up and down the class-room tearing his hair—a most serious matter in his case, for it was ...
— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn
... points, operated by a master transmitter, and dispensing with the regiments of noisy boys. He secured this privilege of distribution, and, resigning from the exchange, devoted his exclusive attention to the "Gold Reporting Telegraph," which he patented, and for which, at the end of 1866, he had secured fifty subscribers. His indicators were small oblong boxes, in the front of which was a long slot, allowing the dials as they travelled past, inside, to show the ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... to time he makes little efforts to bring these outstretched arms farther round, as if to clasp and enfold the British position at Modder River, and it is with the special object of observing and reporting on these movements that our scouting is carried on. This is now attended to by fifteen of us only, under Chester Master, the rest of the corps, with the Major, having gone down to join French at Colesberg now that the advance here has ceased. On the east side of the line we patrol the plain ...
— With Rimington • L. March Phillipps
... north again, I again became lieutenant, but when Capts. Jarrette and Poole reported to Gen. Shelby on the Red river, they were sent into Louisiana, and I again became captain of the company, so reporting to Gen. Henry E. McCulloch in command of Northern Texas at Bonham. All my orders on the commissary and quartermaster's departments were signed by me as ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger
... been obtained from him by gross pressure, and that he himself should move an amendment if no one else did. Wilfrid Lawson then said that he would move; and there were seven in favour of an amendment. This broke up the Committee, and on Dillwyn reporting to Hartington its dissolution, the latter said: "Well, Mr. Dillwyn, you see it is not so easy ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn


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