communiqué

See also: Communiqué and communique

English

Alternative forms

• communique

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing 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 (de) n
• Greek: ανακοινωθέν (el) n (anakoinothén)
• Hungarian: közlemény (hu), kommüniké (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 (ms), 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)

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.