Meaning & use
enumeration
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The act of naming items on a list one by one, or the list itself.
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The report begins with an enumeration of the project's main risks.
Her enumeration of complaints took nearly ten minutes.
A note on using this word
'Enumeration' is common in formal, legal, or academic writing to describe a systematic listing, rather than casual mentions.
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