Definitions

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

  • noun An exposure or a revelation of something discreditable.
  • noun A formal exposition of facts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A formal recital of the causes and motives of an act or acts, or of the facts of a case.
  • noun Exposure; specifically, an undesired or undesirable exposure.
  • noun Synonyms Exposition, Exhibit, etc. See exhibition.

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

  • noun A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

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

  • noun publication of some disreputable facts

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, past participle of exposer, to expose, from Old French; see expose.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French exposé.

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