# statement
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsteɪtmənt/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪtmənt
* Hyphenation: state‧ment

### Etymology 1

From state +‎ -ment.

#### Noun

statement (plural statements)
* A declaration or remark.
    make a statement
    publish a statement
    utter a statement
* A presentation of opinion or position.
* (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
    a bank statement
* (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
** 1981, Thomas C. Bartee, BASIC computer programming, page 110:In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement.
** 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 174:However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:statement

##### Derived terms

* account statement
* bank statement
* blanket statement
* counter statement
* diversity statement
* environmental impact statement
* e-statement
* fashion statement
* financial statement
* impact statement
* income statement
* make a statement
* mission statement
* motherhood statement
* normative statement
* opening statement
* positive statement
* prepared statement
* problem statement
* purpose statement
* reflexive statement
* scissor statement
* Sherman statement
* singular existential statement
* singular statement
* statemental
* statement of accounts
* statement of affairs
* statement of claim
* statement of intent
* thesis statement
* upside-down income statement
* value statement
* victim impact statement
* vision statement
* written statement of employment

##### Translations

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#### Adjective

statement (not comparable)
* Decisive.
** 2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport‎:Gabriel Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner as Arsenal earned a statement victory over defending Premier League champions Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.

### Etymology 2

Back-formation of statementing or back-formation of statemented.

#### Verb

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)
* (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK, a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

#### See also

* Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Further reading

* “statement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “statement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* testament, tentmates, Amstetten

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English statement.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsteːtmənt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: state‧ment

### Noun

statement n (plural statements)
* statement, declaration
    Synonym: verklaring
    Gordijnen zijn niet langer alleen functionele raamdecoratie, maar kunnen tegenwoordig dienen als een statement in het interieur.Curtains are no longer just functional window decoration, but can now serve as a statement in the interior.
* (computing) statement, instruction in a computer program
    Synonym: instructie
    Elk statement in de code is op te splitsen in twee delen: sub en by.Each statement in the code can be divided into two parts: sub and by.