Introduction. This is the first page in a series of pages on Washington special purpose districts. The page discusses the meaning of the term special purpose district and sets out criteria to distinguish special districts with autonomous governing bodies from other types of districts.
verb (used with object), declared, declaring. 1. to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy. 2. to announce officially; proclaim: to declare a state of emergency; to declare a winner.
For variables, definitions assign values to an area of memory that was reserved during the declaration phase. For functions, definitions supply the function body. While a variable or function may be declared many times, it is typically defined once (in C++, this is known as the One Definition Rule or ODR).