statement
the act of announcing something: 公告，布告;通告;声明
The announcement of the changes has been delayed.变革内容公布的时间推后了。
Her announcement confirmed (that) she would be resigning as prime minister.
The protests are a delayed reaction to last week's announcement.这些抗议活动是对上周通告的滞后反应。
The announcement took Washington and Paris by surprise, but Downing Street had been expecting it.这个公告让华盛顿和巴黎方面都感到非常意外，但却是在英国政府的预料之中。
There was a deathly hush after she made the announcement.她宣读完声明后，现场一片死寂。
This announcement follows months of inaction and delay.这个声明是在数月的不作为和延迟后发表的。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Announcing, informing & stating
acquaint someone/yourself with something
annunciation
apprise someone of something
avowedly
awaken someone to something
bear
break
pass
proclaim
propagate
propagation
propagative
public
put something before someone
put something out
reported
ring
self-proclaimed
smoke signal
stake a claimidiom

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Examples of announcement

announcement
Put differently, the agencies often simply tell the market what it already knows, and yet their ' announcements' continue to have impact.
We expect that a person will see that the dishes on the counter need washing, or will hear broadcast announcements - they always did before.
Recruitment of participants was primarily through announcements directed at clinicians and at parents who had concerns about their child's adjustment.
Prohibitions issued by the provincial or central governments were also announced to the people by local officials as public announcements.
Meanwhile, bad news announcements and elaborations often begin low and remain low, and these utterances regularly sound constricted or flat.
Loudspeakers in every school, factory, neighborhood, and collective farm blared throughout the day with political announcements and exhortations.
Sentence (12), in which a writer lets her audience in on the structure of the following text, is a more typical example of such announcements.
Subjects (mostly undergraduates in economics, chemistry, and psychology) were recruited by means of announcements on information boards in university buildings.
Comments about one's own work usually take the form of announcements.
Like questions, announcements and noticings by one member in a group elicit responses that assess their accuracy or their newswor thiness as conditionally relevant.
Besides announcements, datelines, denials and corrections, and prohibitions, these instructions also pertained to the use of politically correct words.
Unfortunately, more detailed information regarding the implementation of the above announcements was not given.
Various announcements are made, first by the father of the children and then by the children themselves.
While some mini reviews contain accurate capsule distillations and/or critical opinion, most are in reality book announcements written by deadline-driven staff writers.
All the same, these laws and announcements did not have an immediate impact on shared standards of conduct.
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Collocations withannouncement

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formal announcement
I expect to make a formalannouncement of the outcome of the review shortly.
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