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REPORTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reportable mean? 

REPORTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective REPORTABLE has 2 senses:

1. (of income) required by law to be reportedplay

2. meriting reportplay

  Familiarity information: REPORTABLE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REPORTABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of income) required by law to be reported

Context example:

reportable income

Antonym:

unreportable ((of income) not reportable; not required by law to be reported)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Meriting report

Context example:

years of research produced no reportable results

Similar:

reported (made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account)


 Context examples 


While Jo trudged beside him, feeling as if her place had always been there, and wondering how she ever could have chosen any other lot. Of course, she was the first to speak—intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous Oh, yes! were not of a coherent or reportable character.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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