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UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃən/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃən/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(in′fər māshən)

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information - news
‘information’
Information is facts that you learn or discover.
You can get more about our products on our website.
Be careful
Information is an uncountable noun. Don't say ‘an information or `informations’. You can say a piece of information.
I found out an interesting .
You give people information.
She me some useful information.
Be careful
Use give, not ‘tell’. Don't say ‘She told me some useful information.’
You refer to information about something or on something.
We don't have any information about him.
I'm looking for information the history of the town.
‘news’
Don't use ‘information’ to refer to descriptions of recent events in newspapers or on television or radio. Use news.
Our town was in the news when it was visited by the Pope.
The story was on the this evening.
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'information' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Forum discussions with the word(s) "information" in the title:

< Cut /cutting> out the unnecessary Information. - English Only forum
___ main use is for storing and manipulating information - English Only forum
...information that the speaker assumes to be shared by _ speaker and _ addressee. - English Only forum
...no matter what the information storage resources available... - English Only forum
'little information' and 'news' - English Only forum
'maintain this information in your memory' [Remember?] - English Only forum
'them' for uncountable noun: information - English Only forum
(a) good information architecture - English Only forum
(Dis)information, thus, is an important leverage employed by the Georgian conservative ecosystem ... - English Only forum
(giving information to someone) Squeal vs Squeak - English Only forum
information)is/was not mentioned - English Only forum
(The) protection of (the) information - English Only forum
[the] information that he had - English Only forum
~visual information transmit data back and forth from a computer. - English Only forum
10000 reward for information - English Only forum
5 billion gigabytes of information was/were? - English Only forum
a bombshell piece of information - English Only forum
a budget of information - English Only forum
a corner piece of information - English Only forum
a diploma is an indication of a student's mastery of key information <and not> just a piece of paper - English Only forum
a discrete unit of information - English Only forum
a duplicate listing with incorrect information - English Only forum
a graph of rainfall information - English Only forum
a high quality of information - English Only forum
a lot of information - English Only forum
A lot of information is/are outdated. - English Only forum
A lot of information or Lots of information - English Only forum
A person can only absorb so much information. - English Only forum
a single release of information - English Only forum
a student of Grade 2012 majors in Information Science from the schoo - English Only forum
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