declarations

Noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
   • The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

   Synonyms:

   avowal, notice, statement

2. (archaic) Specifically, a declaration of love.
   • I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.

   Synonyms:

   notice, statement

4. The act or process of declaring.

   Synonyms:

   notice, profession

5. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
6. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.

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