presentment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pre=sent=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

presentment, n. 

•  The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition.  [1913 Webster]

  "Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion,
  And give it false presentment."  [1913 Webster]
•  The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

Presentment of a bill of exchange, the offering of a bill to the drawee for acceptance, or to the acceptor for payment. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

presentment, n. the act of presenting information, esp. a statement on oath by a jury of a fact known to them.

Etymology

ME f. OF presentement (as PRESENT(2))

THESAURUS

presentment

accommodation, accordance, alphabet, arraignment, art, award, awarding, bail, benefit, bestowal, bestowment, bill, blueprint, charactering, characterization, charge, chart, choreography, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, contribution, conventional representation, dance notation, debut, delineation, deliverance, delivery, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, diagram, display, donation, drama, drawing, enactment, endowment, entertainment, exemplification, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, farewell performance, figuration, flesh show, furnishment, gifting, giving, grant, granting, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impartation, impartment, impeachment, indictment, information, investiture, letter, liberality, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, offer, opening, ostentation, performance, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, premiere, presentation, printing, production, projection, provision, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, retrospective, schema, score, script, show, showing, stage presentation, subscription, supplying, surrender, swan song, syllabary, symbol, tablature, theatrical performance, true bill, tryout, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, vouchsafement, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

presentment

Giving

N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.

Lawsuit

N lawsuit, suit, action, cause, litigation, suit in law, dispute, citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment, accusation, presentment, true bill, indictment, apprehension, arrest, committal, imprisonment, writ, summons, subpoena, latitat, nisi prius, venire, venire facias pleadings, declaration, bill, claim, proces verbal, bill of right, information, corpus delicti, affidavit, state of facts, answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder, surrebutter, surrejoinder, suitor, party to a suit, plaintiff, defendant, litigant, hearing, trial, verdict, appeal, appeal motion, writ of error, certiorari, case, decision, precedent, decided case, reports (legal reference works, see reference books), litigious, qui tam, coram judice, sub judice, pendente lite, adhuc sub judice lis est, accedas ad curiam, transeat in exemplum.

Information

N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.