communiqué

See also: Communiqué and communique

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French communiqué (“something communicated”), past participle of communiquer (“to communicate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˌmjuːn.ɪˈkeɪ/

Noun

communiqué (plural communiqués)

1. An official report or statement, such as a government press release or the report of a conference.
   • 2014, Loraine Sievers, ‎Sam Daws, The Procedure of the UN Security Council (page 39)

     Otherwise, during the early decades of the Security Council there were few instances when private meetings were held and only a communiqué was issued.

Translations

official announcement

• Burmese: သဝဏ်လွှာ (my) (sa.wanhlwa)
• Catalan: comunicat (ca) m
• Esperanto: komunikaĵo
• Finnish: julkilausuma (fi), kommunikea (fi)
• French: communiqué (fr) m
• German: Kommuniqué n
• Hungarian: közlemény (hu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommuniké n, kommunike n

  Nynorsk: kommuniké n, kommunike n

• Portuguese: comunicado (pt) m
• Russian: коммюнике́ (ru) n (kommjuniké)
• Serbo-Croatian: kominike (sh) m
• Spanish: comunicado (es) m
• Swedish: kommuniké (sv) c

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French

Etymology

• See the verb section.

Noun

communiqué m (plural communiqués)

1. communiqué, statement

Verb

communiqué m (feminine singular communiquée, masculine plural communiqués, feminine plural communiquées)

1. past participle of communiquer

Further reading

• “communiqué” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).