reportable
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Meriting or requiring a report; significant enough to be formally recorded or communicated: Describes something, typically an event, result, or piece of information, that is important, noteworthy, or unusual enough to warrant being officially documented or announced.
- (Specifically of income, gains, etc.) Required by law or regulation to be declared to a tax authority: Describes financial information that must be officially submitted, such as on a tax return.
Usage Examples
- General Use (Meriting Report):
- The laboratory incident was deemed reportable to the safety committee.
- Only reportable side effects should be documented in the patient's main file.
- Financial/Legal Use (Required to be Reported):
- All reportable income must be declared on your annual tax return.
- The transaction became reportable once it exceeded $10,000.
Advanced Usage
- "reportable disease": A disease that healthcare providers are legally required to notify public health authorities about when a case is diagnosed.
- Measles is a reportable disease in all 50 states.
- "reportable event": In regulatory or compliance contexts, an occurrence that must be formally reported to a governing body.
- A data breach involving personal information is a reportable event under this regulation.
Variants and Related Words
- Report (verb/noun): The core action or document. To give a spoken or written account of something; a detailed account or statement.
- Reportedly (adverb): According to what some say; allegedly.
- Reporter (noun): A person who reports, especially one employed to report news for a newspaper or broadcasting company.
Synonyms
- Notifiable: Often used interchangeably, especially in medical/legal contexts (e.g., notifiable disease).
- Declarable: Specifically for items that must be declared, often at customs or on taxes.
- Newsworthy: Similar in the sense of meriting communication, but less formal and not related to legal requirements.
Antonyms
- Non-reportable: Not required or significant enough to be reported.
- Insignificant: Lacking importance or note; not worthy of reporting.
- Exempt: Officially freed from an obligation, such as reporting.
Related Phrases/Contexts
- Threshold for reportability: The specific level or condition that makes something subject to reporting rules.
- The threshold for reportability for this chemical spill is 100 gallons.
- Failure to report: The act of not disclosing information that is legally reportable, which can result in penalties.
Adjective
- meriting report
- years of research produced no reportable results
- (of income) required by law to be reported
- reportable income