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Synonyms: retort, resort, deport, repart, repot, repost, ireport, raport

Antonyms: retort, resort, deport, repart, repot, repost, ireport, raport

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive}} To relate details of (an event or incident); to [[recount]], [[describe]] (something). {{defdate|from {{C.|15}}}}
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[repeat]] (something one has heard), to [[retell]]; to [[pass on]], [[convey]] (a message, information etc.). {{defdate|from 15th c.}}
3. {{lb|en|obsolete|reflexive}} To take oneself ({{m|en|to}} someone or something) for guidance or support; to [[appeal]]. {{defdate|15th|18th c.}}
4. {{lb|en|formal|transitive}} To [[notify]] someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. {{defdate|from 15th c.}}
5. {{lb|en|transitive}} To make a formal [[statement]], especially of complaint, about (someone). {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
6. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
7. {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To write [[news]] [[report]]s (for); to [[cover]] as a [[journalist]] or [[reporter]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
8. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be accountable to or [[subordinate]] to (someone) in a [[hierarchy]]; to [[receive]] [[order]]s from (someone); to give [[official]] [[update]]s to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
9. {{lb|en|politics|dated}} To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
10. To take [[minutes]] of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[refer]].
12. {{lb|en|ambitransitive|obsolete|rare}} To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Noun

1. A piece of information describing, or an [[account]] of certain [[event]]s given or presented to someone, with the most common [[adposition]]s being [[by]] (referring to creator of the report) and [[on]] (referring to the subject).
2. [[reputation|Reputation]].
3. {{lb|en|firearms}} The [[sharp]], loud sound of a [[gunshot]] or explosion.
4. {{lb|en|business}} An [[employee]] whose position in a [[corporate]] hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

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