disclosure
- 01 C1 Advanced
a formal requirement to share specific facts, especially in business or law.
the mandatory release of information to the public or to a specific party as required by law or regulation.
Simple“The lawyer explained that the law requires full disclosure of all assets during a divorce.”
In context“Failure to provide adequate disclosure in the prospectus can lead to severe penalties from the regulatory authorities.”
UsageCommonly appears in the phrase 'non-disclosure agreement' (NDA).
Teacher's tipIn a legal context, disclosure is a formal process rather than a casual conversation.
Synonyms
“His disclosure in an interview revived a key question about sobriety: whether someone who once drank dangerously can ever drink moderately.”
“A given disclosure might feel more like a violation depending on who decides where it can go and who can then see it.”
From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.