statement

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtmənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtmənt
• Hyphenation: state‧ment

From state +‎ -ment.

statement (plural statements)

1. A declaration or remark.

   make a statement

   publish a statement

   utter a statement

2. A presentation of opinion or position.
3. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

   a bank statement

4. (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.

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

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)

1. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

• Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• statement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• statement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• tentmates, testament