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noun

document

CEFR B1

writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with document, each labelled with its topic.

  • The clerk stamped and dated every document before the hearing, since an unstamped page carries no weight in that court.

    Law

  • A single surviving document, a customs list from 1387, tells us what a Baltic port shipped in one season.

    History

  • The planning office refused the application because one document, the fire strategy, was missing from an otherwise complete submission.

    Architecture

  • The mortgage document ran to sixty pages, and the buyer signed every one without reading past the interest rate.

    Finance

  • The design document explained why the team chose a queue over direct calls, which saved the next engineer weeks of guessing.

    Technology

  • Every new hire signs one document on the first morning, a confidentiality agreement that the lawyers rewrote last spring.

    Business

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