Other forms: disclosures
A disclosure is telling somebody something private and difficult. A full disclosure, the disclosure was hard, receive a disclosure.
In safeguarding it is the technical word for a child or an adult telling somebody they have been harmed, and the advice for whoever hears it is fixed: listen, do not ask leading questions, and write it down. In finance a disclosure is information a company must publish.
1noundisclosureTelling somebody something private and difficult.
“The child's disclosure to her teacher led to an investigation by social services.”
disclosure is a telling.
From disclose, from Old French desclore, to open up — des- plus clore, to close. The noun was formed on the model of closure.
From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA