réponse, n.f., answer, reply; response; (jur.) rejoinder. — à une réplique; (jur.) rejoinder. À sotte demande point de —; a foolish question deserves no answer. — de Normand; equivocal, or shuffling, answer. Faire —; to answer, to make answer. Faire une —; to give an answer. — s’il vous plaît; an answer will oblige.

report, n.m., (book-keeping) carrying over, carrying forward, bringing forward; sum carried over, amount brought forward; continuation, prolongation. Faire un —; to bring forward; (exchange) to carry over.

reportage, n.m., reporting.

reporter (-teur), n.m., (—s) (in newspapers) reporter.

reporter, v.a., to carry back again, to carry back, to take back; to trace back, to trace; (book-keeping) to carry forward, to carry over.

se reporter, v.r., to go back (to); to return; to be carried back; to look back (upon).

reporter, v.n., to carry over.

repos, n.m., rest; stillness; repose, ease, quiet, peace, tranquillity; pause; resting-place; (carp.) quarter-pace. En —; at rest. Se tenir en —; to keep quiet. Être en —; to be at ease. Laissez-moi en —; let me alone. Lit de —; couch. Mettre un fusil dans son —, au —; to half-cock a gun. Echappement à —; (horl.) stop; dead beat. —! (milit.) stand at ease!

reposé, -e, part. adj., rested, refreshed; quiet, calm, cool, fresh. À tête —e; coolly, deliberately, at leisure. Vin —; wine that has settled.

reposée, n.f., (hunt.) lair. À —s; with intervals of rest.