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plural statements
A declaration or remark. examples
A presentation of opinion or position. examples
(finance) A document that summarizes financial activity. examples
(computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. quotations examples
In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement.
1981, Thomas C. Bartee, BASIC computer programming, page 110
However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.
1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 174
not comparable
Decisive. quotations examples
Gabriel Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner as Arsenal earned a statement victory over defending Premier League champions Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.
2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport
third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented
(transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. examples