STATEMENT

Meaning of STATEMENT in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bank statement (= a written statement of how much you have in a bank account )

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I get a written bank statement once a month.

a bold statement/assertion/claim

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In a surprisingly bold statement, the couple said they had no intention of marrying.

a policy statement

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There has been no policy statement on this from the French government.

bank statement

clarify issues/a statement/matters etc

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Could you clarify one or two points for me?

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Reporters asked him to clarify his position say exactly what his beliefs are on welfare reform.

contradictory messages/statements/demands etc

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The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.

cryptic remark/comment/statement etc

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a cryptic note at the end of the letter

factual information/knowledge/statements etc

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Libraries are stores of factual information.

fashion statement

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Mobile phones make a big fashion statement.

fraudulent statement

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a fraudulent statement

issued...statement

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Silva issued a statement denying all knowledge of the affair.

joint statement

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The two ministers have issued a joint statement .

mission statement

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Use a personal mission statement to chart your career course.

prepared statement

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The President read out a prepared statement .

provocative comment/remark/statement

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The minister’s provocative remarks were widely reported in the press.

the statement/testimony of a witness (= what a witness says )

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The testimony of one witness led to his conviction.

thesis statement

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a paragraph introducing your thesis statement

took...statement

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The police took a statement from both witnesses.

written agreement/reply/statement/report etc

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Please send a cheque with written confirmation of your booking.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

brief

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The columns are headed by brief statements of key activities in that stage of the project, laid out in logical order.

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He issued a brief statement late Monday noting that he had discussed the matter with Rep.

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I conclude this paper with a brief statement about thematic work.

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Nunn, who is retiring at the end of the year, explained his vote switch in a brief written statement .

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He failed to do so in his brief statement from the Dispatch Box.

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These and all other consultants should be listed by name, title and a brief statement of relevant experience.

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Chapter 2 makes brief statements about value bias, too many variables not enough countries, and equivalence.

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Aronoff, who asked to be arraigned today, appeared before the media for just minutes Thursday to read a brief statement .

clear

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I think it has an important function in providing a clear statement of a furniture-maker's design philosophy.

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Again, it is crucial that a clear specific statement or set of statements be made.

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A Will is simply a clear statement about how your money and possessions are to be divided when you die.

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Statement of objectives: clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required.

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To reject such a clear statement of opinion and fact by doctors would be unreasonable.

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This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations.

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Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands.

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By making their status as speech acts clear , these statements are both more direct and more impolite.

false

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Similarly subsequent facts will not make a false statement true.

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The grand jury indicted Aronoff, R-Cincinnati, and Riffe, D-Wheelersburg, on two counts of filing a false statement .

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This individual is not required to show how he or she was injured by the false statements .

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It can only be activated when a false statement actually damages a reputation.

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A false statement is viewed as a lie regardless of the intent.

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For example, listening comprehension may be measured by circling true or false after each statement which is heard.

financial

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It would be necessary to make full disclosure of the arrangement in the financial statements .

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During the deposition, Symington defended the use of the $ 67. 5 million Esplanade appraisal in his 1990 financial statement .

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The financial statement will be ready for the A.G.M. The donations from the general public show a decrease on previous years.

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Have an up-to-date credit report and, if needed, a financial statement from parents.

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The consolidated financial statements include those of the Company and all its subsidiaries made up to the end of the financial year.

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A financial disclosure statement of Sen.&038;.

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What disclosure should be made in the respective companies' financial statements ?

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The material involved may go to show how accurate were the company's financial statements and how accurate were any representations made.

general

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It is difficult to evaluate this very general statement .

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This sequence of topics begins with a very general statement and continue to narrow down to very specific detailed material.

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An extravagant signal could be a general statement of a male's ability to cope.

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In fact, a more general statement must hold, namely that no signal is permitted to travel outside the light cone.

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Since we can never investigate all protons, any general statement about them whatsoever must depend upon a principle of this sort.

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Accordingly, a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years, as shown in Table 5.1.

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They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past.

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It is therefore prudent to examine both periods in turn before attempting to produce any general statements about rural population change.

joint

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The two issued a joint statement calling for the continuation of negotiations between the two blocs.

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A joint statement to that effect was issued afterwards.

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The six-point joint statement also agreed on co-operation in shipping, communications, scientific surveys, and combating piracy and drug trafficking.

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After his lunchtime lecture from a furious Mr Major, he agreed a joint statement calling for talks to re-start immediately.

official

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An official statement the companies were hammering out also at press time was unlikely to clarify that point.

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By contrast, the Justus Township standoff has been notable for the lack of any official statements .

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Journalistic speculation and inference about official statements are not protected.

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Amtrak refused to confirm that date Wednesday, saying an official statement will be made today.

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Government documents and official statements concerning integration are replete with romantic and ill-defined language.

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The various official statements are unhelpful in practice.

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At least four official statements have been made by the United Kingdom.

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However the pressures are such that in many countries no clear unambiguous official statement is available.

personal

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Tomorrow, Mr Kinnock will make a personal statement about his future as leader of the Labour Party.

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I use the pronoun I to make it a personal statement .

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There has still been no clear personal statement from the Prime Minister.

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The photographs have all the encoded language of fashion iconography, yet seem to wish to express some more personal aesthetic statement .

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I wish to refer to the personal statement which the Secretary of State made.

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Against the odds, she succeeds in making an intimate personal statement out of tunes that are almost public property.

public

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These privileges attach to reports of public statements and public documents.

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At the meetings, as in their public statements , they tended to personalize the issues.

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In a rare public statement , the tough undercover soldiers - whose motto is Who Dares Wins - have apologised.

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By 1988, the regime was forced to issue public statements denying it intended to destroy any more religious sites.

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Under pressure from Muccio, Rhee qualified his previous remarks in a further public statement .

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Charfi had never before put his name to such a public statement .

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A number of prominent politicians made public statements supporting Stolpe, including the federal President, Richard von Weizsäcker.

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He makes it clear that both the official guidance and Yeo's public statements are not supportable in law.

written

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The hearing was adjourned to allow all parties to submit written statements by April 24.

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Such a right instilled trust in the written statements by carriers and encouraged consignees to deal with distant and unknown sellers.

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The appeal will be dealt with by an exchange of written statements .

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Difficult concepts can be illustrated on a hand-out as diagrams or graphs, backed up by short, clear, written statements .

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Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November.

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The initial approach should be made informally; thereafter you may submit a written statement of your grievance.

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Ideally the combined written statement and budget estimate should stand as the Development or Corporate Plan of the governing body.

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They had given him one written statement .

■ NOUN

bank

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She ran a sticky finger down the monthly balance-sheet, then checked the figures against the handwritten bank statement .

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Two weeks ago, Leavey glanced at the bank statements NationsBank was sending to Dena.

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After the couple's death police discovered bank statements which showed they paid the builders £23,000 for it.

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On your bank statement , it will show up as $ 47, 395.

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And don't forget: keep a record of your order, so you can balance it against your bank statement .

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Sands opened the bank statement first.

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Tax inspectors should be empowered to examine a man's bank statement as well as his credit-card dealings.

fashion

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Reporting from the international catwalks, Meredith Etherington-Smith has defined and simplified this season's fashion statements , beginning on page 261.

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Tonight, you might take the shaved head as a fashion statement .

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The textiles from Qawrighul are more than a fashion statement .

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The Minipod is more than a fashion statement .

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No fashion statements with the Mary Chain.

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Now it was to become a fashion statement for the world.

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But one man stands alone, and he's making his own fashion statement .

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Even Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, high priestess of the black fashion statement , is designing in color.

mission

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Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands.

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Your clearly defined mission statement will help you to focus on what you really want out of your entrepreneurial life.

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Schools are encouraged to produce a mission statement resulting from widespread discussion of the school's raisond'etre.

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Can you create a mission statement that is a reflection of your personal and business goals in two sentences or less?

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This becomes part of your mission statement and will help you focus as your business grows.

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Develop a mission statement of two sentences or less that clearly defines your definition of personal and business success.

observation

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An observation statement is one made in response to certain stimuli and strongly verifiable by appeal to the occurrence of such stimuli.

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This example clearly illustrates the theory dependence and hence fallibility of observation statements .

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It was stressed in Chapter 3 that observation statements must be formulated in the language of some theory.

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The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.

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So, as well as being probably infinite in length, the list of conditional observation statements was probably rather vague in content.

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However, I do not wish to claim that it follows from this that observation statements should play no role in science.

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I am not urging that all observation statements should be discarded because they are fallible.

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We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer, but observation statements certainly are not.

policy

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Robert Blatchford's socialism became codified in Labour's founding policy statements and has become known as Labourism.

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After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.

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Recent policy statements have been even more succinct.

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Without laws, thoughtful policy statements are merely well-meaning rhetoric.

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Rainbow was developed in 1989 as a multi-cultural education policy statement to create anti-bias lessons.

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But the demands and realities of Presidential office should cause him to consider his foreign policy statements more carefully.

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The Secret Committee - now called the Main Committee - produced two very different policy statements in the course of the year.

■ VERB

contain

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Some sources, especially primary ones, may contain statements made in error.

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Evidence of this surfaces in the opening page of the preface to the Almagest which contains a revealing statement worthy of quotation.

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The Judicial Statistics contain a statement of the average amount at which bills are taxed in a particular year.

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The latest twist in a deteriorating relationship between police and loyalist activists was contained in a statement issued to Sunday Life yesterday.

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In addition each of the gospels contains contradictory statements about the same event.

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Access to files sometimes leads people to worry that they will be sued if the record contains unprovable statements .

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A share certificate will contain two statements on which the company will know that reliance may be placed.

include

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Those that have not yet been spent should be included on the completion statement , but not on the bill.

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You should always include statements about feelings of relief and self-confidence.

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It includes also some illuminating statements by the poets themselves on their aesthetic outlook and their place in literary history.

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If there are no such circumstances, the notice of resignation must include a statement to that effect.

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This may include a statement confirming that the animals are healthy and fit to travel and an import licence.

issue

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The attacks are every bit as alarming to local unionist politicians who have been quick to issue statements of condemnation.

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He issued a brief statement late Monday noting that he had discussed the matter with Rep.

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Years ago that disappeared, and today official bodies are always being asked to issue statements on safety issues.

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After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.

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Normally, a prime minister's office would issue a statement about an editor.

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On December 31, Herrera issued a final statement to the nation.

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Sony has issued a statement defending itself.

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Other building societies said they were considering their options and would issue statements later today.

make

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Johnson said, making a statement instead of a question.

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A supplementary statement may be necessary, for example, where further relevant events have occurred since the original statement was made .

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In the second half of the year almost every manager made that statement to me, almost verbatim.

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What he did not know until late on was that his former Chancellor was to make a statement on his resignation.

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We had a chance to make a statement .

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Fashionable hotels usually make their statement by treating guests grandly.

prepare

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These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments.

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In a prepared statement , one targeted member, Sen.

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The Shop Officers and Mary Purcell would prepare a statement . 4.

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Most of the speakers were women and many had prepared lengthy and detailed statements of their views.

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Note that this aggregation applies whether or not the parent prepares consolidated financial statements .

read

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He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before.

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Aronoff, who asked to be arraigned today, appeared before the media for just minutes Thursday to read a brief statement .

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And looking tense and grim-faced, he walked slowly to the pulpit and read a statement from a small piece of paper.

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He read a statement charging that the prosecution meant to destroy the Moon family.

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Andrew Beattie's wife saw the secretary of state read the statement on television.

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They, too, saw the secretary of state read the statement .

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I simultaneously read a statement like that from Guru Nanak, Guru of Sikhs, a very spiritual man.

say

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The hon. Gentleman said that my statement was a blow against consultation.

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Alan Bannister, 39, said in a final statement .

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President and Chief Executive Dan Case said in a statement .

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The financing is backed by a letter of credit from Societe General, Bancomext said in the statement .

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Which is not to say that statements of fact had no implications of principle.

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Shoemaker said Friday in a statement issued by Santa Anita.

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Medical Technology Systems said in a statement .

write

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An employee who is refused a written statement can go to an industrial tribunal to enforce their right to receive one.

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Hayworth faxed a written statement before he left, but declined to respond to reporters' questions.

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The resulting income statement , Exhibit 4. 7, is essentially a written statement of the closing process.

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The judge rejected his request and ordered his written statement impounded.

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The physicians who wrote these statements were the leading specialists of the time.

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Can you write down your mission statement in one or two sentences?

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Clinton said in a written statement .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bald statement/facts/truth

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And the truth was - the bald truth was - Lori was crazy about him.

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Historians do not make bald statements and always attempt to substantiate their point.

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The bald truth is he did the wrong thing, but perhaps he had some of the right reasons.

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The account relied more heavily on innuendo than bald statement but the message was clear.

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We recognised that the bald statement in the preceding paragraph requires amplification.

blanket statement/rule/ban etc

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Cine Blitz International publisher Rajesh Mehra attacked the blanket ban.

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His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.

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One of the most urgent measures is a blanket ban on all animal and bone meal in animal feed.

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The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches.

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The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.

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The idea behind this imposition of blanket bans was to prevent the temptation to discriminate against particular marches.

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The state bar would prefer to set a blanket rule governing all types of lawyers.

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They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.

evidence/statements etc to the contrary

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But it also held evidence to the contrary .

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Despite all evidence to the contrary , the list price of the SE-40 is $ 980.

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Despite the evidence to the contrary , most of Monday morning's newspapers subscribed to the Army's version.

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Indeed, there is a good deal of evidence to the contrary .

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This, despite the evidence to the contrary that had surfaced since the Fort Lauderdale conference.

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Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then, evidence to the contrary has been slight.

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True he was not, so far as we know, misogynist: there is evidence to the contrary .

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Without evidence to the contrary , it may be unwise to go against the behavior suggested as appropriate by the myth.

personal mission statement

sweeping statement/generalization

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He prefers a complicated sentence to a sweeping statement.

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Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement.

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This is a sweeping statement which makes little obvious sense on first reading, so let us dissect it more carefully.

sworn statement/evidence/testimony etc

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The application was based on a sworn statement from a lay midwife who said she attended his birth in La Paloma.

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The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the camp, whose seven-month training including the use of explosives.

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This is confirmed by her not going against her sworn statement, unlawfully though it had been extracted from her.

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This meant that sworn statements by Mitchell, Stans and others would not be made public before the election.

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Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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a bank statement

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According to its financial statement , the company made a profit of $15 million last year.

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In a statement , the BBC admitted that it had given incorrect information.

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The President will make a statement to the press this afternoon.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Aversion relief statements are also included here.

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Mr. Speaker I will take points of order after the statement .

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Once again, in his autumn statement yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was forecasting an economic upturn.

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Shevardnadze did not repeat in public or in his internal report his most emphatic statement in Pyongyang.

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The boffin claims to be able to lower bust-up ratios by analysing responses to statements about their lifestyles.

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The company gave no year-ago figures in its statement .

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The Court relied upon lack of protest coupled with public statements of the position, preferring overt behaviour to formal requirements.

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