allegations
- 1Plural of allegation.
The newspaper published a series of allegations about the senator's finances.
Investigators spent months examining the allegations of misconduct at the firm.
Note
A regular plural that belongs to only one side of allegation. Countable claims, accusations not necessarily based on fact, pluralize naturally, and the plural often suggests charges piling up before any is proved. The other meaning, the act of alleging itself, names a process rather than separate claims, so it rarely takes an -s. In reporting, the word keeps its caution: an allegation is said, not shown.
allegations is a form of allegation
allegation, noun: An assertion, especially an accusation, made without proof that it is true. Full entry
- Forms
- allegationallegations plural
- Spelling
- allegation → allegations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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