declaration — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

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   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.

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

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   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.

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4. The act or process of declaring.

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

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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.

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

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Sostantivo

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

   Termini più generali

   statement

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

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   testimony

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   his declaration of innocence

3. a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

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   statement

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

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   contract

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   bidbidding

5. a formal public statement

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   announcementproclamationannunciation

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   statement

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   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

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   resolutionresolve

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   documentwritten documentpapers