disclosure

From Latin dis- + clausus

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/

disclosure (countable and uncountable, plural disclosures)

1. The act of revealing something.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 13:

     Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; […]

2. (law) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.

   get full disclosure

3. (law) A previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.

• revelation

• closure

• nondisclosure

• disclose