correspondent
Americannoun
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a person who communicates by letters.
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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.
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a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.
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a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, especially at a distance.
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a thing that corresponds to something else.
adjective
noun
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a person who communicates by letter or by letters
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a person employed by a newspaper, etc, to report on a special subject or to send reports from a foreign country
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a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp one in a different part of the country or abroad
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something that corresponds to another
adjective
Other Word Forms
- correspondently adverb
- noncorrespondent adjective
- precorrespondent adjective
Etymology
Origin of correspondent
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin corrēspondent- (stem of corrēspondēns ), present participle of corrēspondēre to correspond; -ent
Example Sentences
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Some high-profile journalists have also left the network in recent months, including 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper, who in February said he would be leaving the programme to spend more time with his family.
From BBC
Your correspondent has written about it on occasion.
From MarketWatch
On its release, BBC music correspondent Mark Savage described West End Girl as "a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart".
From BBC
Our correspondent traveled 450 miles across Greenland to see what it would take for the U.S. to reopen military bases on the island.
The meningitis incubation period is up to 14 days, so officials believe there could be more cases to come, according to the BBC's health correspondent Nick Triggle.
From BBC
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