compte rendu

See also: compte-rendu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French compte rendu.

Noun

compte rendu (plural comptes rendus)

1. A report of an officer or agent.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compte rendu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• producement

French

Alternative forms

• compte-rendu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃t ʁɑ̃.dy/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

compte rendu m (plural comptes rendus)

1. account, report (of research, etc.)
2. exposé
3. review (of a scientific article or work)

Usage notes

• Capitalised, it is the name of several academic journals, produced by various learned societies.

Further reading

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