communiqué

See also: Communiqué and communique

English

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communiqué

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• communique

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing 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.

   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened, →ISBN, page 103:

     Another fate the Europeans couldn't contemplate was not having a final communiqué at all, because if there was no final statement, maybe the meeting never took place, and how terrible that would be for mankind.

Derived terms

• joint communiqué

Translations

official announcement

Albanian: komunikatë (sq) n Armenian: կոմյունիկե (hy) (komyunike) Belarusian: камюніке́ n (kamjunikjé) Bulgarian: комюнике́ (bg) n (komjuniké) Burmese: သဝဏ်လွှာ (my) (sa.wanhlwa) Catalan: comunicat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 公報 / 公报 (zh) (gōngbào) Dutch: communiqué (nl) n Esperanto: komunikaĵo Finnish: julkilausuma (fi), kommunikea (fi) French: communiqué (fr) m Georgian: კომუნიკე (ka) (ḳomuniḳe) German: Kommuniqué (de) n Greek: ανακοινωθέν (el) n (anakoinothén) Hungarian: közlemény (hu), kommüniké (hu) Indonesian: komunike (id) Japanese: 公報 (ja) (こうほう, kōhō), コミュニケ (komyunike) Korean: 커뮤니케 (keomyunike), 성명서(聲明書) (seongmyeongseo), 공보(公報) (gongbo) Macedonian: коминике́ n (kominiké) Malay: kenyataan (ms), komunike Norwegian: Bokmål: kommuniké n, kommunike n Nynorsk: kommuniké n, kommunike n Polish: komunikat (pl) m Portuguese: comunicado (pt) m Russian: коммюнике́ (ru) n (kommjuniké) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: коминѝке̄ m Roman: kominìkē (sh) m Spanish: comunicado (es) m Swedish: kommuniké (sv) c Ukrainian: комюніке́ n (komjuniké) Vietnamese: thông cáo (vi)

French

Etymology

• See the verb section.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.ni.ke/

Noun

communiqué m (plural communiqués)

1. communiqué, statement

Derived terms

• communiqué de presse

Participle

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

1. past participle of communiquer

Further reading

• “communiqué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.