Declaration and Declared

noun

• A statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written. )
• Law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction. (
  • usage: "his declaration of innocence"
• A statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties.
• Contract bridge. ( the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make)
  • synonyms: contract
• A formal public statement.
  • usage: "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence"
  • synonyms: announcement, proclamation, annunciation
• A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.
  • synonyms: resolution, resolve

• (n.) The act of declaring or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
• (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
• (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count or counts. See Count, n., 3.
• (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.

Declaration is the Board of Directors motion to authorize dividend payments.

verb

• State emphatically and authoritatively.
  • usage: "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"
  • synonyms: declare
• Announce publicly or officially.
  • usage: "The President declared war"
  • synonyms: announce, declare
• State firmly.
  • usage: "He declared that he was innocent"
  • synonyms: declare
• Declare to be.
  • usage: "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
  • synonyms: declare, adjudge, hold
• Authorize payments of.
  • usage: "declare dividends"
  • synonyms: declare
• Designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand.
  • synonyms: declare
• Make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official.
  • usage: "Do you have anything to declare"
  • synonyms: declare
• Proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against.
  • usage: "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast"
  • synonyms: declare

adjective

• Made known or openly avowed.
  • usage: "their declared and their covert objectives"; "a declared liberal"
• Declared as fact; explicitly stated.
  • synonyms: stated