communiqué

communiqué

See also: Communiqué and communique

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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

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 n Greek: ανακοινωθέν (el) n (anakoinothén) Hungarian: közlemény (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, 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)

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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.