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A statement is a sentence that says something is true, like "Pizza is delicious." There are other kinds of statements in the worlds of the law, banking, and government.

All statements claim something or make a point. If you witness an accident, you make a statement to police, describing what you saw. You get a statement from your bank, a monthly record of what you spent and what you have left. Sometimes a statement isn't so official — it's just some kind of point being made. People say someone's car makes a statement — or their clothes do. Running away on your wedding day would make a huge statement.

DEFINITIONS OF: statement

n the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

Synonyms:: affirmation, assertion

Types:: say-so
one chap's arbitrary assertion

Type of:: speech act
the use of language to perform some act

n a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

“according to his statement he was in London on that day”

Examples:: show 19 examples...; hide 19 examples...; Articles of Confederation
a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens; Communist Manifesto
a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views; First Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech; Fifth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes; mandates due process of law and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy; requires just compensation if private property is taken for public use; Fourteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government; Eighteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932; Nineteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex; Annunciation
(Christianity) the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ; Parkinson's law
C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that the number of subordinates in an organization will increase linearly regardless of the amount of work to be done; Parkinson's law
C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion; Lateran Treaty
the agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state; North Atlantic Treaty
the treaty signed in 1949 by 12 countries that established NATO; SALT I
the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; SALT II
the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Peace of Westphalia
the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648; Chemical Weapons Convention
a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons; Geneva Convention
an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime; Treaty of Versailles
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans; Missouri Compromise
an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

Types:: show 170 types...; hide 170 types...; sum-up, summary
a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; pleading
(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding; amendment
a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.); thing
a statement regarded as an object; true statement, truth
a true statement; description, verbal description
a statement that represents something in words; declaration
a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written); announcement, annunciation, declaration, proclamation
a formal public statement; Bill of Rights
a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution); formula
a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle; mathematical statement
a statement of a mathematical relation; bid, bidding
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make; word
a brief statement; account, explanation
a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; explanandum, explicandum
(logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained; explanans
(logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises; value statement
a statement of the desirability of something; representation
a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting; answer, resolution, result, solution, solvent
a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; answer, reply, response
a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; announcement, promulgation
a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen; forecasting, foretelling, prediction, prognostication
a statement made about the future; proposition
(logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false; quotation
a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity; falsehood, falsity, untruth
a false statement; understatement
a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said; qualification, reservation
a statement that limits or restricts some claim; cautious statement
a statement made with careful qualifications; comment, commentary
a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; comment, input, remark
a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; rhetorical question
a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; misstatement
a statement that contains a mistake; restatement
a revised statement; agreement, understanding
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; condition, term
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; estimate
a statement indicating the likely cost of some job; chemical formula, formula
a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements; representation
a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract; declaration
a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties; assurance
a statement intended to inspire confidence; recital
a detailed statement giving facts and figures; negation
a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement; argument, literary argument
a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; capitulation
a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic; compendium
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work; abridgement, abridgment, capsule, condensation
a shortened version of a written work; conspectus
an overall summary; CV, curriculum vitae, resume
a summary of your academic and work history; line score
a summary of the scoring in a game (usually in tabular form); abstract, outline, precis, synopsis
a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory; overview
a general summary of a subject; roundup
a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup"; resume, sketch, survey
short descriptive summary (of events); rundown, summation, summing up
a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court); confederacy, conspiracy
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act; fair-trade agreement
an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer; covenant
(Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return; unilateral contract
a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise); sale, sales agreement
an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer); affirmative pleading
any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff; alternative pleading, pleading in the alternative
a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on; answer
the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims; charge, complaint
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; complaint
(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based; defective pleading
any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency; demurrer
(law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings; rebuttal, rebutter
(law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder; replication
(law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer; rejoinder
(law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication; special pleading
(law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegations; surrebuttal, surrebutter
(law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter; surrejoinder
(law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder; equation
a mathematical statement that two expressions are equal; ad-lib
remark made spontaneously without prior preparation; courtesy
a courteous or respectful or considerate remark; gospel, gospel truth
an unquestionable truth; job description
description of the responsibilities associated with a given job; spec, specification
a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work; bastardization
declaring or rendering bastard; edict
a formal or authoritative proclamation; promulgation
the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect; confession
a public declaration of your faith; manifesto, pronunciamento
a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government); dictum, pronouncement, say-so
an authoritative declaration; assertion, asseveration, averment
a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary); expression, formula
a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement; protestation
a strong declaration of protest; postulation, predication
(logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument; threat
declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; contract, declaration
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make; takeout
(bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit; overbid, overcall
(bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand); pre-empt, preempt, preemptive bid
a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding; simplification
an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity; accounting
a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes; reason
an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; justification
a statement in explanation of some action or belief; exposition
an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; explication
a detailed explanation of the meaning of something; denouement
the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; gloss, rubric
an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text; derivation, deriving, etymologizing
(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase; definition
a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol; rescript
a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality; feedback
response to an inquiry or experiment; advisory
an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat; banns
a public announcement of a proposed marriage; handout, press release, release
an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation; notice
an announcement containing information about an event; program, programme
an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; extropy
the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe; fortunetelling
the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment); horoscope
a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets; meteorology, weather forecasting
predicting what the weather will be; forecast, prognosis
a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop; divination, prophecy
a prediction uttered under divine inspiration; particular, particular proposition
(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class; universal, universal proposition
(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class; negation
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false; converse
a proposition obtained by conversion; lemma
a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition; theorem
a proposition deducible from basic postulates; conclusion, ratiocination
the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism); posit, postulate
(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning; axiom
(logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident; dodge, dodging, scheme
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery; lie, prevarication
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; fable, fabrication, fiction
a deliberately false or improbable account; deceit, deception, misrepresentation
a misleading falsehood; fine print, small print
the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type; weasel word
an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion; Midrash
(Judaism) an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew scriptures that is based on Jewish methods of interpretation and attached to the biblical text; annotation, notation, note
a comment or instruction (usually added); gambit, ploy
an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker; obiter dictum, passing comment
an incidental remark; mention, reference
a remark that calls attention to something or someone; observation, reflection, reflexion
a remark expressing careful consideration; rib
a teasing remark; crack, quip, sally, wisecrack
witty remark; barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; conversation stopper, stopper
a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply; demythologisation, demythologization
the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms; mythologisation, mythologization
the restatement of a message as a myth; error, mistake
part of a statement that is not correct; malaprop, malapropism
the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar; slip of the tongue
an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking; bargain, deal
an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each; working agreement
an informal agreement to work together; gentlemen's agreement
a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding; written agreement
a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties; submission
an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; entente, entente cordiale
a friendly understanding between political powers; oral contract
an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation; molecular formula
a chemical formula based on analysis and molecular weight; empirical formula
a chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atoms; tautology
(logic) a statement that is necessarily true; litotes, meiosis
understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude
a trite or obvious remark; truism
an obvious truth; interpretation
an explanation that results from interpreting something; reservation
the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance; settlement
a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it; severance agreement
an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave; suicide pact
an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time; characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting
a graphic or vivid verbal description; contradiction, contradiction in terms
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; clean bill of health
an assurance that someone is healthy or something is in good condition; wanted notice, wanted poster
a public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person; walk-through
a thorough explanation (usually accompanied by a demonstration) of each step in a procedure or process; zinger
a striking or amusing or caustic remark

Type of:: content, message, subject matter, substance
what a communication that is about something is about

n a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true

Synonyms:: argument

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; proof
a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it; counterargument
an argument offered in opposition to another argument; pro
an argument in favor of a proposal; con
an argument opposed to a proposal; case
a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; clincher, determiner, determining factor
an argument that is conclusive; adducing
citing as evidence or proof; last word
the final statement in a verbal argument; specious argument
an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious; mathematical proof
proof of a mathematical theorem; logical proof
proof of a logical theorem; demonstration, monstrance
proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion; vicious circle
an argument that assumes that which is to be proved; straw man, strawman
a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted; special pleading
an argument that ignores all unfavorable evidence

Type of:: evidence
an indication that makes something evident

n a document showing credits and debits

Synonyms:: financial statement

Types:: show 16 types...; hide 16 types...; bank statement
a periodic statement prepared by a bank for each client; account, bill, invoice
an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; account, account statement, accounting
a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; earnings report, income statement, operating statement, profit-and-loss statement
a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period; electric bill
a bill for money owed for electricity used; hotel bill
statement of charges for staying in a hotel; doctor's bill, medical bill
statement of charges for medical services; phone bill, telephone bill
statement of charges for telephone service; reckoning, tally
a bill for an amount due; tax bill
money owed for taxes; check, chit, tab
the bill in a restaurant; capital account
(finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date; capital account
(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities; profit and loss, profit and loss account
an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss; suspense account
an account used temporarily to carry doubtful receipts and disbursements or discrepancies pending their analysis and permanent classification; expense account, travel and entertainment account
an account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expenses

Type of:: commercial document, commercial instrument
a document of or relating to commerce

n (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

Synonyms:: command, instruction, program line

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; call
an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; command line
commands that a user types in order to run an application; link
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list; macro, macro instruction
a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language; system error
an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules; toggle
any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time; function call
a call that passes control to a subroutine; after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program; hyperlink
a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen; supervisor call instruction, system call
an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor

Type of:: code, computer code
(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

n (music) the presentation of a musical theme

“the initial statement of the sonata”

Types:: augmentation
the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original); diminution
the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)

Type of:: idea, melodic theme, musical theme, theme
(music) melodic subject of a musical composition

n a nonverbal message

“a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are”

“his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention”

Type of:: content, message, subject matter, substance
what a communication that is about something is about

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