pronouncement
pronunciation
How to pronounce pronouncement in British English:
UK [prəˈnaʊnsmənt]
How to pronounce pronouncement in American English:
US [prəˈnaʊnsmənt]
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- Noun:
- an authoritative declaration
Word Origin
- pronouncement (n.)
- 1590s, from pronounce + -ment.
Example
- 1. Chang , like carrefour , could only return to the debate and be heard again by making a very public pronouncement about his support for " one china " .
- 2. His followers treated bin laden with great deference , referring to him as " the sheik , " and hung on his every pronouncement .
- 3. " The time has come for the federal government to make some pronouncement on cholesterol , " says george washington university 's larosa .
- 4. The emerging favourite , with only marginally better ratings , is henry tang ying-yen , the current chief secretary , whose most memorable recent public pronouncement has been his defence of the despised property tycoons who get blamed for the territory 's extortionate housing prices .
- 5. Summed up like that , the central message of a keenly awaited papal pronouncement on the social and economic woes of the world may sound like a statement of the obvious .