Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Requiring official notification: Describes something, typically a disease, condition, or event, that by law or regulation must be reported to a relevant authority (e.g., a government health department).

Usage

The adjective "notifiable" is used almost exclusively in formal, official, or legal contexts to describe items that must be reported. It is most commonly used before a noun (e.g., "a notifiable disease").

Examples

• Adjective:
  • Measles is a notifiable disease in many countries, meaning doctors must report cases to public health authorities.
  • The company declared the data breach a notifiable incident under the new privacy regulations.
  • Certain serious workplace accidents are notifiable to the safety inspectorate.

Advanced Usage

• "Notifiable" in Public Health: This is the most frequent usage, referring to infectious diseases or conditions that health professionals are legally obligated to report. This allows for monitoring and control of outbreaks.
  • Laboratory confirmation of the virus made it a notifiable finding.
• "Notifiable" in Law and Regulation: Can extend to other events like certain crimes, safety incidents, or financial transactions that require formal reporting.
  • The transaction became notifiable to the competition commission once it exceeded the financial threshold.

Variants and Related Words

• Notify (verb): To inform someone officially about something.
  • Doctors must notify the health department of any suspected cases.
• Notification (noun): The act of notifying or the letter/document that provides official information.
  • The health agency received a notification of three new cases.

Synonyms

• Reportable: Capable of or requiring being reported. (Often used interchangeably with "notifiable" in some contexts, though "notifiable" carries a stronger sense of legal obligation.)
• Declarable: Required to be declared, especially to customs or tax authorities. (Shares the sense of a mandatory report but in a different domain.)

Antonyms

• Non-notifiable: Not required to be officially reported.
  • The minor infection was deemed non-notifiable.

Related Phrases

• "Notifiable to...": Specifies the authority that must receive the report.
  • The disease is notifiable to the Centers for Disease Control.
• "List of notifiable diseases": A standard official list published by a health authority.
  • The hospital consulted the national list of notifiable diseases.

Adjective

1. requiring that official notification be given
   • a notifiable disease