Communiqué

noun

/kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪ/

An official statement or press release issued after a diplomatic meeting, conference, or summit, summarising the agreed positions and decisions of the participants.

✍️ Usage in a UPSC answer

The joint communiqué issued after the bilateral summit reaffirmed both nations' commitment to a rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific, yet its carefully hedged language betrayed the persisting divergence on contentious border questions.

Synonyms

bulletinstatementdispatchannouncementdeclarationreport

Antonyms

silenceconcealmentsuppression

🌱 Word Family

communiqué (n), communiqués (n pl), communicate (v), communication (n), communicative (adj)

🔡 Root

French communiqué = something communicated; past participle of communiquer = to communicate; from Latin communis = common

📜 Etymology

Borrowed from French communiqué ("something communicated"), past participle of communiquer ("to communicate"); first used in English in the 1850s.

🧠 Memory Hook

Hear "communicate" inside communiqué — it is the French for "communicated": an official message communicated to the world after a meeting.

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