declaration — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].

2. Specifically, a declaration of love.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • contable
   • no contable

   Ejemplos

   I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

   Más ejemplos (1)

   He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […].

3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

4. The act or process of declaring.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

5. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

6. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

7. The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

Sustantivo

1. a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

   Términos más generales

   statement

2. (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction

   Términos más generales

   testimony

   Ejemplos

   his declaration of innocence

3. a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

   Términos más generales

   statement

4. (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

   Sinónimos

   contract

   Términos más generales

   bidbidding

5. a formal public statement

   Sinónimos

   announcementproclamationannunciation

   Términos más generales

   statement

   Ejemplos

   the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war

   a declaration of independence

6. a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

   Sinónimos

   resolutionresolve

   Términos más generales

   documentwritten documentpapers