for the record
To be clear
For the record signals that what follows should be noted or remembered, often to correct a misunderstanding or establish an official position: For the record, I never agreed to that.
It can introduce clarification, emphasis, or mild protest.
The phrase evokes courtroom transcripts or formal documentation, though it's common in everyday speech.
- transcriptVerbatim written account
- minutesSixty-second intervals
- statementExpressed claim or fact
- emphasisStress given to something
- clarificationMaking meaning plain
affidavit · assertion · officially · let it be known · judge · court reporter · testimony · annotation · log · declaration · archive · deposition · explanation · acknowledgment · memorandum · protocol · witness · evidence
- Candor Phrasesto be honest, truth be told, honestly, frankly, to tell the truth
- denialsnot guilty, disclaimer, disavowal, rejection, refusal
for the recordoff the record
Not meant for reporting
off the books · unofficially · between you and me · unrecorded · undocumented
for the recordoff the record
Not meant for reporting
anonymously · confidentially · between you and me · unattributed · without attribution
record, records, recorded, recording, recorder, recordings, recorders, recordable