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Noun: reporting  ri'por-ting
  1. The news as presented by reporters for newspapers, radio or television
    "The newspaper's reporting on the scandal won a Pulitzer Prize";
    - coverage, reportage
Verb: report  ri'port
  1. To give an account or representation of in words
    "Discreet Italian police reported it in a manner typically continental";
    - describe, account
     
  2. Announce as the result of an investigation, experience or finding
    "Dozens of incidents of wife beatings are reported daily in this city"; "The team reported significant advances in their research"
     
  3. Announce one's presence
    "I report to work every day at 9 o'clock"
     
  4. Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
    "Snow reported on China in the 1950's";
    - cover
     
  5. Make known to the authorities
    "One student reported the other to the principal"
     
  6. Complain about; make a charge against
    "I reported her to the supervisor"

Derived forms: reportings

Type of: announce, complain, denote, inform, kick [informal], kvetch [N. Amer, informal], moan, news, plain [archaic], sound off

Encyclopedia: Reporting

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