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Literally, the message translates as: "referees are barred from making statements in public including via email, their own websites, mailing lists, forums, blogs or discussion groups such as Facebook and similar systems."

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  1. noun A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another.
  2. noun The substance of such a communication; the point or points conveyed: gestured to a waiter, who got the message and brought the bill.
  3. noun A statement made or read before a gathering: a retiring coach's farewell message.
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  • A moment later, he gasped as the message was answered with a short burst of peculiar static from the alien. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2008
  • This message is automatically inserted in all classifieds forum threads. —  AVForums.com
  • I have worked with a variety of City staff on a variety of projects and the message is the same: there is no money, we are spending anything we have to support the RIM Park payments. —  Yappa Ding Ding
  • How else users thought that the sponsored ad just happened to relate, albeit tangentially, to the content of the message is a little beyond us, but that's the finding of a survey by 'we don't scan your emails' email service GMX. —  The Inquirer
  • And to the terrorists that oppose you, my message is the same, we will defeat you. —  FOXNews.com
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letter ·  data ·  communication ·  report ·  statement ·  call ·  answer ·  image ·  command ·  speech ·  request ·  address

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere, to send.

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  1. from Middle English message, massage, from French message = Provencal messatge = Spanish mensaje = Portuguese mensage, mensagem = Italian messaggio, from Middle Latin missaticum (also, after Roman, missagium, messagium), a message, a notice sent, from Latin mittere, past participle missus, send: see mission. Cf. missive, of same origin and similar meaning: and mess, of same origin. Hence messager, messenger.
  2. from message, n.
 

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