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rapporter — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fetch verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
  • narrate verb To tell a story or describe a sequence of events, in speech or writing.
  • report verb To give an account of an event or pass on information that has been observed or heard.
  • yield verb To produce or give as a result, especially a crop, profit, or outcome.

Senses

rapporter is used for these senses in English:

  • bring back (transitive) To revive, to resurrect; to cause something dead to be alive once again.
  • fetch (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  • narrate To give an account.
  • report (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15th c.]
  • report (ambitransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19th c.]
  • report (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
  • take back (transitive) To return (something) to a vendor for a refund.
  • yield To produce as return from an investment.

fetch — full definition

  1. verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
  2. verb To sell for, or bring in, a certain price.
  3. noun The act of retrieving something, or a program's act of pulling data.

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