declaration -- (a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written))
declaration -- ((law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction; "his declaration of innocence")
declaration -- (a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties)
contract, declaration -- ((contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make)
announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration -- (a formal public statement; "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence")
resolution, declaration, resolve -- (a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote)