report

Definitions

• (transitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
• (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
• (obsolete) To take oneself (to (to) someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
• (formal) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
• (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
• (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
• (ambitransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
• (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
• (politics) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
• To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
• (obsolete) To refer.
• (ambitransitive) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.