| query | If you say that something is r_________ true, you mean that someone has said that it is true, but you have no direct evidence of it.If you say that something is reportedly true, you mean that someone has said that it is true, but you have no direct evidence of it. More than two hundred people have reportedly been killed in the past week's fighting. Now Moscow has reportedly agreed that the sale can go ahead. General Breymann had been shot dead, reportedly by one of his own men. |
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| word | reportedly |
| full-definition | adverb If you say that something is reportedly true, you mean that someone has said that it is true, but you have no direct evidence of it. More than two hundred people have reportedly been killed in the past week's fighting. Now Moscow has reportedly agreed that the sale can go ahead. General Breymann had been shot dead, reportedly by one of his own men. |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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