Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of stating or declaring.
  • noun Something stated; a declaration.
  • noun A formal oral or written declaration, especially with regard to facts or claims.
  • noun An abstract of a commercial or financial account showing an amount due; a bill.
  • noun A monthly report sent to a debtor or bank depositor.
  • noun Computers An elementary instruction in a programming language.
  • noun An overall impression or mood intended to be communicated, especially by means other than words.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, a formal narration of facts or an averment in judicial proceedings, as the allegations of a complaint or answer in a cause.
  • noun The act of stating, reciting, or presenting verbally or on paper.
  • noun That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital; the expression of a fact or of an opinion; account; report: as, a verbal statement; a written statement; a bank statement; a doctrinal statement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or on paper.
  • noun That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
  • noun A declaration or remark.
  • noun A presentation of opinion or position.
  • noun finance A document that summarizes financial activity.
  • noun computing An instruction in a computer program.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
  • noun a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
  • noun (music) the presentation of a musical theme
  • noun a document showing credits and debits
  • noun (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
  • noun a nonverbal message
  • noun a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Back-formation from statementing. and statemented

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

state (verb) +‎ -ment

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  • The verb 'to statement' has the inflections 'statements', statementing' which is in Wordnik, and 'statemented'. It refers to the process in the UK and probably beyond whereby a school is required to prepare a statement of special educational need (SEN) when appropriate.

    May 28, 2012

  • Oh, pshaw, GHibbs. Pull yourself together, please. The fact that some mindless bureaucrat somewhere takes a noun and sticks a "to" in front of it doesn't actually make it a legitimate verb, you know.

    The proposition that "statement" is a verb makes me want to shudder.

    May 28, 2012

  • Makes me want to anguish :-(

    May 29, 2012

  • only to languish?

    May 29, 2012

  • Yes, mind your languish, please.

    May 29, 2012