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APPRISAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprisal mean? 

APPRISAL (noun)
  The noun APPRISAL has 1 sense:

1. informing by wordsplay

  Familiarity information: APPRISAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


APPRISAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Informing by words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

apprisal; notification; telling

Hypernyms ("apprisal" is a kind of...):

informing; making known (a speech act that conveys information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apprisal"):

notice (advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract)

warning (notification of something, usually in advance)

Derivation:

apprise (inform (somebody) of something)


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