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US
/ˌdɛkɫɝˈeɪʃən/
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[ UK /dˌɛkləɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɛkləɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
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a formal public statement
the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war
a declaration of independence - a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
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(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction
his declaration of innocence
How To Use declaration In A Sentence
- Second, that the entire Reichstag assented to the declarations made by the speakers on Tuesday that the Emperor had exceeded his constitutional prerogatives in private discussion with foreigners concerning Germany's attitude on controverted questions. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
- He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
- Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.
- McCoy had fully embraced the idea of belated fatherhood his declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. The Better Man
- Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
- His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. Balzac
- In addition there were various protocols to the Treaty and declarations adopted by the Member States.
- The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was years in the making.
- The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
- The Declaration affirms that governments "deriv [e] their just powers from the consent of the governed. Articles on National Review Online
