document

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document is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
document is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.

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Singular document

Plural documents

1. A document is a written record, often official.

   They stopped her at the airport and checked all her documents.

   A number of Chinese documents from 1000 BCE were recently discovered.

   On March 28, 1990, the government published a document listing the companies which it intended to privatize.

2. A document is a kind of computer text file.

   Can you send me that document by e-mail?

   We should be able to edit your document using MS Word.

[change] Verb

Plain form document

Third-person singular documents

Past tense documented

Past participle documented

Gerund-participle documenting

1. (transitive) If you document something, you make a record of it, usually in writing.

   It's important for newspaper reporters to be there to document the war.

   We have documented number cases in which he has broken company policy.