Meanings
- not comparableThat must be reported to the proper authorities; notifiable
- not comparableCapable of being reported on.
reportable data elements
- not comparableWorth reporting on; constituting news.
Journalists often point to the truism that the fact that all airplanes that took off today landed safely does not produce reportable news — another way of explaining why a disproportionate amount of what gets reported as news is bad news.
2005, Terry Francke, The CalAware Guide to: Open Meetings in California, page 144
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of income) required by law to be reported
adjectivemeriting report
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Italian riportabile, riferibile
- riportabilenotifiable
- riferibilenotifiable
Cite this entry
reportable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reportable
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