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on (the) record

known or recorded officially and publicly. He is on the record as saying that I was not involved in this decision. The number of murders this year is the lowest on record for this city since the 1920s.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the phrase go on the record make something known officially and publicly: These women are willing to go on the record with charges against their boss.

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Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing--and the sooner the better. The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context It's on record, your position on interstate commerce regulation, on regulation of the railway trust and Standard Oil, on the conservation of the forests, on a thousand and one restrictive measures that are nothing else than socialistic. Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context More results

References in classic literature

Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing--and the sooner the better.

The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context

There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome.

Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context

It's on record, your position on interstate commerce regulation, on regulation of the railway trust and Standard Oil, on the conservation of the forests, on a thousand and one restrictive measures that are nothing else than socialistic.

Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context

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