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correspondent

[kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor-]

noun

  1. a person who communicates by letters.

  2. a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.

  3. a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.

  4. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, especially at a distance.

  5. a thing that corresponds to something else.



adjective

  1. consistent, similar, or analogous; corresponding. correspond.

correspondent

/ ˌɒɪˈɒԻəԳ /

noun

  1. a person who communicates by letter or by letters

  2. a person employed by a newspaper, etc, to report on a special subject or to send reports from a foreign country

  3. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp one in a different part of the country or abroad

  4. something that corresponds to another

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. similar or analogous

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • correspondently adverb
  • noncorrespondent adjective
  • precorrespondent adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of correspondent1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin ǰŧDzԻԳ- (stem of ǰŧDzԻŧԲ ), present participle of ǰŧDzԻŧ to correspond; -ent
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Tennis correspondent Russell Fuller compared them to "day three or four" at Wimbledon.

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She left the network in 2001 to host her own talk show and later worked as a correspondent for entertainment news show “The Insider.”

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Here BBC correspondents analyse how key services have fared and what the decisions may mean for you.

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Veteran ABC News correspondent Terry Moran is leaving the network, following his suspension over social media posts that were harshly critical of the Trump White House.

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Fluent in French, German, Spanish, and Russian, he was a born foreign correspondent.

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