rapport

Borrowed from French rapport.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɔɹ/, /ɹæˈpoʊɹ/, /ɹæˈpoɹ/, /ɹəˈpoɹ/, /ɹəˈpoʊɹ/, /ɹəˈpɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

rapport (countable and uncountable, plural rapports)

1. A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.

   He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.

   • 1910, Charles Webster Leadbeater, chapter VII, in The Inner Life, volume I:

     Such a man would almost certainly be pouring out a constant stream of loving thought towards humanity, and this thought would be a real and potent shower of blessing, tending generally towards the spiritual helping of those upon whom it fell; and there is no doubt that the man who was earnestly thinking of or praying to that saint would come into rapport with him, and would therefore draw down upon himself a great deal of that force, though entirely without the knowledge of the saint from whom it came.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "You can't have less than nothing. They ignore them altogether. Some time ago I had a series of cases of telepathic rapport which I wished to lay before the Royal Society."

   • 2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2024:

     She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.

2. Relation; proportion; conformity.

   Synonyms: accord, correspondence

   • 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 60:

     'Tis obvious enough, what rapport there is, and muſt ever be, between the Thoughts and Words, the Conceptions and Languages of every Country, [...]

• en rapport
• rapportage

• “rapport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Borrowed from French rapport.

rapport c (singular definite rapporten, plural indefinite rapporter)

1. a report (information describing events)

• rapportering

• rapportere
• rapportering
• rapportør

• reportage

From Middle Dutch rapport, from Middle French rapport.

• IPA^(key): /rɑˈpɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: rap‧port
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

rapport n (plural rapporten, diminutive rapportje n)

1. a report
2. (education) a report card

• rapporteren
• eindrapport
• schoolrapport

• Afrikaans: rapport
• → Caribbean Javanese: lapor, laporan, repot
• → Indonesian: lapor, rapor
• → Papiamentu: rapòrt

Deverbal from rapporter.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophone: rapports

rapport m (plural rapports)

1. ratio
2. report

   rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report

3. relationship
4. ellipsis of rapport sexuel (“sexual intercourse”).

• “rapport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• riport, laport

Borrowed from Italian rapporto.

• IPA^(key): /rapˈpɔrt/

rapport m (plural rapporti)

1. report, statement, account

Borrowed from French rapport.

rapport m (plural rapports)

1. (Jersey) report

Borrowed from French rapport.

rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapporter, definite plural rapportene)

1. a report (on events)

• kvartalsrapport
• årsrapport

• rapportere

• “rapport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French rapport.

rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapportar, definite plural rapportane)

1. a report (on events)

• kvartalsrapport
• årsrapport

• “rapport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French rapport.

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• IPA^(key): /rapˈɔʈː/, [ɾapˈɔʈː]

rapport c

1. a report (information describing events)
2. (capitalized) Rapport (a news program)
   • 1979, Per Gessle, Mats Persson (lyrics and music), “Flickorna på TV2”‎^[2]performed by Gyllene Tider:

     Sätter på TV2, sönderstressad av stan. Rapport med sport och väder.

     [I] turn on TV2 [former name of SVT2, a television channel], broken by the stress of the city [broken-stressed by the city]. Rapport with sports and weather.

• vindruterapport (“initial assessment (when just arrived to incident)”)

• rapportera
• rapportör
• reporter
• reportage

• rapport in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rapport in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rapport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• trappor