DISCLOSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disclosure mean? 

• DISCLOSURE (noun)
  The noun DISCLOSURE has 1 sense:

1. the speech act of making something evident

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCLOSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The speech act of making something evident

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

disclosure; revealing; revelation

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

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

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

singing; tattle; telling (disclosing information or giving evidence about another)

display (behavior that makes your feelings public)

divulgement; divulgence (the act of disclosing something that was secret or private)

discovery (something that is discovered)

discovery ((law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case)

giveaway (an unintentional disclosure)

informing; ratting (to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors))

leak; news leak (unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information)

exposure (the disclosure of something secret)

Derivation:

disclose (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

 Context examples 

I listened to Mr. Rochester's narrative, but made no disclosure in return.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With Mercury retrograde, you may discover that the current occupant has not given you full disclosure about things you’ll have to fix once you move in.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Unless I deceive myself, Mr. Traddles,” pursued Mr. Micawber, “what I contemplate is a disclosure of an important nature.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Could the event of the disclosure bear an equal resemblance!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Particularly, the ethical principle or legal right that a physician or other health professional will hold secret all information relating to a patient, unless the patient gives consent permitting disclosure.

(Confidentiality, NCI Thesaurus)

A document that protects researchers from involuntary disclosure of personal identifying information acquired in the course of a research project.

(Certificate of Confidentiality, NCI Thesaurus)

The disclosure, however, of the great secret of James's going to Fullerton the day before, did raise some emotion in Mrs. Allen.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Specifies whether a person has authorized the use and disclosure of their private and/or confidential information.

(Confidentiality Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

An indicator that can be set or unset in order to signal whether a signed authorization from a patient, or his legal representative, or clinical study participant for the use or disclosure of oral, written, or electronic form of confidential health information that identifies the individual and relates to the medical history, diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis of his condition has been obtained.

(Authorization for Release of Confidential Health Information Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)