Meaning of information in English

information

noun [ U ]

/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/ us

/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/

(informal info)

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facts about a situation, person, event, etc.:

information about Do you have any information about train times?

information on For more information on our courses, visit our website.

piece of information I read an interesting piece of information in the newspaper.

bit of information informal I just need a few more bits of information from you.

for further information For further information (= if you want to know more), please contact your local library.

[ + that ] We have reliable information that a strike is planned next month.

for more information For more information about upcoming events, follow us on social media.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

information

informationCan I get some information on uni courses?
detailsPlease send me details of your training courses.
directionsJust follow the directions on the label.
instructionsHave you read the instructions all the way through?
directionsWe had to stop and ask for directions.
guidelinesThe government has issued new guidelines on health and safety at work.

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Please contact our agent in Spain for further information.
I went to several libraries to gather information about the scheme.
The police are appealing to the public for any information about the missing girl.
"Hello, I'd like some information about your flights to the USA, please."
Modern computers can hold huge amounts of information.

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Grammar

Information

Information is an uncountable noun meaning ‘facts about someone or something’. It is often followed by about: …

Idiom

too much information

(Definition of information from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

information | American Dictionary

information

noun [ U ]

/ˌɪn·fərˈmeɪ·ʃən/

(short form info)

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news, facts, or knowledge:

an important piece of information

Can you give us some information on tours to Alaska?

Information about upcoming local events is printed in the newspaper.

(Definition of information from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

information | Business English

information

noun [ U ]

/ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃən/ us

( informal info)

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facts or details about a person, company, product, etc.:

gather/get/obtain information Can you tell me where I can obtain further information?

ask for/request/demand information I wrote requesting information on how revenue statistics were compiled.

give/provide/share information The investment research company provides information in a timely way.

information on sth The questionnaire asks for detailed information on family and medical history.

information about sth Regulators are demanding that firms release more and more information about their performance.

additional/more/further information Anyone requiring further information should contact this office.

classified/confidential/proprietary information

accurate/detailed/reliable information

financial/personal/business information

It was a very interesting piece of information.

for information only

used in an announcement, email, document, etc. that contains information that someone needs but that they do not have to deal with:

All comments, rates, and dates are provided for information only.

for more information (also formal for further information)

MARKETING

used in advertisements, news articles, etc. when giving something such as a website or phone number where someone can find more information about something:

For more information visit www.cambridge.org.

for your information

(also FYI)

used to say that you are telling or giving someone something because they might not know or have it and it could be useful for them:

A copy of the document is enclosed for your information.

Examples of information

information

It also happens through information exchange that allows the emergence of cognitive distinction between players.

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Authenticity arguably has a further dimension, beyond the information and autonomy requirements, namely richness.

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Organic systems assimilate information about the world mediated by their internal structure.

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The local press company may offer publications that cross-subsidize the provision of political information that supports the state.

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A basic requirement in studies of the benefits of a psychological treatment is information on the conduct of the therapy itself.

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Little information is available on how much time was spent on labour activities once pupils had left school.

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She argues, then, that learners incorporate phonological and distributional information to arrive at adult syntactic representations.

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The third issue is that of predictable information in lexical representations.

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They distinguish a lexical network in which word form information is stored from a semantic network in which perceptual knowledge and conceptual knowledge are represented.

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This model represents the process involved in the translation of words in context using lexical information.

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Therefore, they must cope with the problem of representing very diverse lexical information at different levels of granularity, and store the information efficiently.

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However, to obtain the variance matrix, the true parameter values are replaced by their estimates and the information matrix is inverted numerically.

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The reported information on the form thus might not correspond to the reality of facts.

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No information was requested about the parents themselves.

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Space is left above the stack for responses to requests for information such as types.

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Collocations with information

information

These are words often used in combination with information.

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access information

It is at this time that access information is collected.

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accounting information

The figures given emerge from the ordinary flow of accounting information.

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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0

accurate information

Who can we rely on to provide accurate information?

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Translations of information

in Chinese (Traditional)

情報, 資料, 消息…

Meaning of information in English

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Idiom

information | American Dictionary

information | Business English

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