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self-report

self-report noun: a kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.

Noun

self-report (plural self-reports)

  1. A kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.
  2. (informal) Something said by someone with the purpose of conveying a neutral stance on a subject but unintentionally leading to that person's bias being revealed.
    • His constantly talking about rape laws was a bit of a self-report.

Verb

self-report (third-person singular simple present self-reports, present participle self-reporting, simple past and past participle self-reported)

  1. (transitive) To respond in this manner.
  2. (transitive) To report one's own problems or failings.
    • The train operating company-owning group [...] says it self-reported the issue to the Office of Rail and Road after identifying the problem during a recent audit.2022 January 29, “Network News: First pays out after Delay Repay error”, in RAIL, number 960, page 27

Forms of self-report

Noun
pluralself-reports
Verb
third-person singular presentself-reports
present participleself-reporting
past participleself-reported
pastself-reported

Origin of self-report

From self- + report. Noun sense 2 was coined by players of Among Us, in which the impostor can report the body of another player they have just killed, as if having just discovered it guiltlessly.

Questions about self-report

What does self-report mean?
Self-report means a kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.
What part of speech is self-report?
Self-report can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of self-report?
The plural of self-report is self-reports.

Words near self-report in the dictionary

  1. self-renunciations
  2. self-repair
  3. self-repairs
  4. self-repellency
  5. self-replicating
  6. self-report
  7. self-reported
  8. self-reporting
  9. self-reports
  10. self-repper
  11. self-reppers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-report (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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