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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disclosure
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
▪ In the spirit of full financial disclosure, a list of all buyers will be made public by inaugural organizers in March.
▪ According to his financial disclosure report he and his family firms have holdings worth at least $ 1. 5 billion.
▪ George V.. Hansen, R-Idaho, for filing false financial disclosure forms.
▪ And it follows financial disclosure reports revealing the Giants are burying the opposition in money.
▪ A financial disclosure statement of Sen.&038;.
full
▪ There are two exceptions to the rule requiring full disclosure.
▪ In the spirit of full financial disclosure, a list of all buyers will be made public by inaugural organizers in March.
▪ Such bodies surely need little in the way of encouragement before making full and frank disclosure.
▪ They agree about the seriousness of the crime statistics and the importance of full disclosure.
▪ Under the law, amnesty requires full disclosure, which brings into question the amnesty decision.
▪ Critics of that stance say anything less than full disclosure is often misleading and sometimes dangerous.
▪ It would be necessary to make full disclosure of the arrangement in the financial statements.
▪ Clearly, the board needed a full disclosure on the timekeeper before they sent it back to sea.
public
▪ The test is whether the public interest in disclosure outweighs the public interest in the preservation of confidence.
▪ In addition, he especially should have ensured that plans were made for handling any public disclosure of the initiative.
▪ Insiders may decide to defer public disclosure so that they may first build up a position in the relevant shares.
▪ I went through all the public disclosure forms.
▪ Unlike campaign contributions, public disclosure is not required for these kinds of events.
recent
▪ The timing of the recent disclosures is hardly the best for Mrs Clinton and the White House.
■ NOUN
letter
▪ These are usually substantially negotiated before the seller produces the disclosure letter which contains items of non-compliance with the warranties.
▪ The disclosure letter is sometimes drafted in such a way as effectively totally to modify or negate the negotiated warranties.
▪ The acquirer should refuse finally to settle the terms of the warranties until it has seen the disclosure letter and disclosure material.
▪ It is practice to state in the agreement that all warranties are subject to matters fairly and properly disclosed in the disclosure letter.
▪ The correct state of affairs is understood by reading the warranty together with the disclosures in the disclosure letter.
▪ The vendor should be required to refer in the disclosure letter to the reason why the documents have been disclosed.
▪ The disclosure letter usually will start by reciting that certain matters are to be considered as generally disclosed.
▪ Clearly the disclosure letter is important as it potentially undermines the warranties.
requirement
▪ It is with regard to these latter companies that additional disclosure requirements must be considered.
▪ Unquoted companies are not subject to such disclosure requirements and accordingly represent a greater risk.
▪ Two additional disclosure requirements are proposed.
▪ Most such respondents did not identify specific disclosure requirements that they considered excessive.
▪ There are various restrictions and disclosure requirements in relation to such dealings, and dealings may have certain effects on the offer.
▪ The Listing Particulars Directive of 1980 sought to harmonise disclosure requirements, with a view to eventual mutual recognition of listing particulars.
▪ More detailed guidance was given about what should be included under this heading, and a minimum disclosure requirement proposed.
statement
▪ G would require campaign consultants to file quarterly disclosure statements identifying their clients and detailing their work.
▪ A financial disclosure statement of Sen.&038;.
■ VERB
follow
▪ Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals.
▪ And it follows financial disclosure reports revealing the Giants are burying the opposition in money.
▪ Although prosecutions are rare, editors require some guidance as to whether action is likely to follow a particular disclosure.
▪ In some cultural environments, information is hard to obtain simply because bad luck is believed to follow upon its disclosure.
include
▪ Normally forms must be filled out before such badges can be issued, including disclosure of a criminal record.
make
▪ Such bodies surely need little in the way of encouragement before making full and frank disclosure.
▪ It is unclear whether Mrs Clinton made such a disclosure.
▪ In addition, the warranties encourage the vendor to make disclosures which relate to the quality of the assets.
▪ Even if advance disclosure is made, further disclosure may be necessary at the time of a transaction if an actual conflict arises.
▪ This family was the second detected and our practice has since been modified to make a disclosure no sooner than 6 weeks.
▪ It would be necessary to make full disclosure of the arrangement in the financial statements.
▪ The vendor will seek to reduce the risk by making disclosures and limiting its liability for breach of warranty.
require
▪ There are two exceptions to the rule requiring full disclosure.
▪ Under the law, amnesty requires full disclosure, which brings into question the amnesty decision.
▪ The notion of required disclosure was still years away.
▪ Safety legislation requires the disclosure of hazardous contents but this seems to be ignored as well.
▪ Symington is the only person listed on state forms requiring disclosure of shareholders who own more than 20 percent of its stock.
▪ It required the full disclosure of the condition of any firm wishing to issue new shares.
▪ The London Stock Exchange has since introduced new rules which require an appropriate disclosure to be publically made.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Following sensational disclosures concerning his personal life, he has offered to resign.
▪ the disclosure of classified information
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even if advance disclosure is made, further disclosure may be necessary at the time of a transaction if an actual conflict arises.
▪ It would be necessary to make full disclosure of the arrangement in the financial statements.
▪ Our conditioning can make us very resistant to using disclosure.
▪ Public disclosure of the conference call has sparked a political firestorm.
▪ The issue of document disclosure has been burning beneath the surface of the tobacco debate.
▪ This is the action in the famous Argyll v. Argyll, which concerned the possible disclosure of intimate marital secrets.
▪ Until recently, attention has focused on the measurement and disclosure issues associated with representational faithfulness and neutrality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disclosure

Disclosure \Dis*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See Disclose, v. t., and cf. Closure.]

  1. The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.

    He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure.
    --D. Webster.

  2. That which is disclosed or revealed.

    Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten?
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disclosure

1590s; see disclose + -ure. Formed in English, perhaps on model of closure.

Wiktionary
disclosure

n. 1 The act of reveal#Verb something. 2 (context legal English) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclose. 3 (context legal English) A previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.

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WordNet
disclosure

n. the speech act of making something evident [syn: revelation, revealing]

Wikipedia
Disclosure (novel)

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, published in 1994. The novel is set in a fictional high tech company, just before the beginning of the dot-com economic boom. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders, and his battle against unfounded allegations of sexual harassment.

Disclosure (film)

Disclosure is a 1994 semi- erotic thriller film directed by Barry Levinson, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. It is based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. The cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Rosemary Forsyth and Dennis Miller. The film is a combination thriller and slight mystery in an office setting within the computer industry in the mid-1990s. The main focus of the story, from which the film and book take their titles, is the issue of sexual harassment and its power structure.

Disclosure

Disclosure may refer to:

Law, science, technology, and finance
  • The acknowledgment of facts that one might prefer not to mention, especially risks and conflicts of interest
    • Discovery (law), pre-trial phase where parties to the case obtain evidence
    • Convention of disclosure, convention that all material facts must be disclosed in financial statements
    • Prospectus (finance), a disclosure document that describes a financial security
    • Key disclosure law, legislation that requires individuals to surrender cryptographic keys to law enforcement
    • Disclosure widget, GUI element that is used to show or hide various child elements in the interface
Philosophy
  • World disclosure, a term referring to the way that humans make sense of the world
  • Reflective disclosure, a term coined by philosopher Nikolas Kompridis
Arts and media
  • Disclosure (album), 2012 album by Dutch band The Gathering
  • Disclosure (band), a UK-based garage-house duo
  • Disclosure (novel), 1994 novel written by Michael Crichton
    • Disclosure (film), 1994 film starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, based on the novel
  • "Disclosure" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
  • Disclosure (1967 film), South Korean film featuring Shin Seong-il
  • CBC News: Disclosure, a television newsmagazine series in Canada
Ufology
  • Disclosure (ufology), the revelation of suppressed evidence of extraterrestrial life by the United States government or other world governments
Disclosure (band)

Disclosure are an English electronic music duo consisting of brothers Howard (born 11 May 1994) and Guy Lawrence (born 25 May 1991). The siblings grew up in Reigate, Surrey. Their debut studio album, Settle, released on 3 June 2013 by PMR, was nominated for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. They released a second studio album, Caracal, on 25 September 2015 which was also nominated for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards. On 24 June 2016, they headlined the Friday line-up on the "Other Stage" at Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom.

Disclosure (album)

Disclosure is the tenth studio album by The Gathering released via Psychonaut label on 12 September 2012.

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Usage examples of "disclosure".

He quit after the disclosure of his friendship with Asil Nadir, a businessman who fled to Turkish-occupied north Cyprus charged with serious fraud offences connected with his Polly Peck group.

Bay--Juma al-Dosari, a Bahraini in his late twenties--had been under interrogation that yielded a disclosure.

For full disclosure let me admit that I dreamed of you constantly since Saturday and slept with my hands above the covers.

Now comes the news that the security guard, Hugo Nilo Salazar, has himself been in previous scrapes with the lawa disclosure that seems to come as no shock to state licensing officials.

Swartwout another messenger, as secret and more swift, was dispatched from Natchitoches, bearing to Washington City from the commander-in-chief, a full disclosure of the plans of conspiracy, and fastening the charge of treason on Aaron Burr.

But if he had known that the gentleman was Dr Maturin, I do not think you need fear any disclosure: Waterhouse was the most secret man I have ever known, though he seemed so open - volte sciolto, pensieri stretti indeed.

The relation which existed between Arundel and Eveline was, of course, affected by the disclosure of Spikeman on his death-bed--no opposition being henceforth made to the free intercourse of the two young people.

His disclosure of a fact which, if made public, would inflict great injury on Miss Fraser and her programme, the network, and Starlite, was irresponsible and inexcusable, and certainly actionable.

Rapidly I took her into superconsciousness, anticipating some interesting spiritual disclosures.

He did not even mention Richard Tsao by name, and Ross wondered what the others might think if they had heard his rare disclosure, which on recollection Pryce himself would regard as a weakness.

We find that thesis, then we move to dissolve the interference, contending that the sole count is unpatentable over the disclosures in the thesis.

Today the prospects for further restrictions on private campaign financing, full disclosure of the personal finances of the candidates, and public finance of all federal campaigns seem to me better than ever -- and even better than if a new Democratic administration had urged such steps in early 1973.

In the face of public pressure, these people stall, play dodgeball, mince words and, in the end, refuse disclosure.

Republicans who had been clamoring for disclosure were now joined by a number of High Federalists who had gotten wind of the damaging content of the dispatches and were happy to help the Republicans step into a trap of their own making.

Dawbridge promised startling disclosures in the Grundle mystery before to-morrow morning.