Definition

1. 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

1. meriting report
   • years of research produced no reportable results
2. (of income) required by law to be reported
   • reportable income