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stringer
[string-er]
noun
a person or thing that strings.
a long horizontal timber connecting upright posts.
Architecture.string.
Civil Engineering.a longitudinal bridge girder for supporting part of a deck or railroad track between bents or piers.
a longitudinal reinforcement in the fuselage or wing of an airplane.
Also called string correspondent.Journalism.a part-time newspaper correspondent covering a local area for a paper published elsewhere.
The Los Angeles paper has a correspondent in San Francisco but only a stringer in Seattle.
a stout string, rope, etc., strung strung through the gills and mouth of newly caught fish, so that they may be carried or put back in the water to keep them alive or fresh.
a contestant, player, or other person ranked according to skill or accomplishment (used in combination).
Most of the conductors at the opera house were third-stringers.
Mining.a small vein or seam of ore, coal, etc.
stringer
/ ˈٰɪŋə /
noun
architect
a long horizontal beam that is used for structural purposes
another name for stringboard
nautical a longitudinal structural brace for strengthening the hull of a vessel
a journalist retained by a newspaper or news service on a part-time basis to cover a particular town or area
Other 51Թ Forms
- restringer noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
She contributed to the New York Times as an election stringer during the 2024 presidential election and reported on culture and politics at the Paris Olympics.
Video from the stringer service OnScene.TV shows a stalled pickup truck on the shoulder of the freeway with a gaping hole in the windshield.
“For me personally, the film is about finding the stringer,” said Nguyen.
Then it was back to collecting Djokovic's racquets and taking them to the stringer.
Quillin, meanwhile, is a stringer for news services and often goes to the scenes of breaking news to record video.
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