announcement
Pluralannouncements
- 1The act of making something known publicly or giving notice of it.
The company delayed its announcement until after the market closed.
Her sudden announcement that she would resign stunned the board.
Similardeclaration, statement, disclosure, proclamation, notification
Note
The noun for the event itself, borrowed from Middle French annoncement and readable as announce plus -ment. Its natural verb is make: you make an announcement, and speakers often say they have one to make before delivering it. That collocation marks this sense, the moment of telling, rather than what is actually said, which listeners go on to interpret.
- 2The information or message that is made known: the substance of what is being announced.
The announcement contained three key changes to the policy.
Investors parsed every word of the announcement for hints about future plans.
Note
Here the announcement is something to be read for its meaning. It can imply, contain or hint at things, and readers weigh its words the way they would any text. Verbs of meaning are the quickest test: when an announcement implies something, the sentence is about its substance, not about the act of making it.
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Origin
This word comes from Middle French "annoncement." By surface analysis, it can also be read as "announce" combined with the suffix "-ment."