correspondent

American  

[kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dənt, ˌkɒr- /

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.

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adjective

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

correspondent British  

/ ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənt /

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

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adjective

1. similar or analogous

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

She oversees a team of correspondents and researchers in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

Prior to joining the Journal's corporate bureau in New York, Natasha spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent focusing primarily on China.

From The Wall Street Journal

Welcome to my world: the world of a BBC correspondent in Russia.

From BBC

She was previously a correspondent in Beijing, where she reported on everything from China’s criminal justice system to its quest to build a better rice cooker.

From The Wall Street Journal

Previously, Austin was a Beijing correspondent and a Hong Kong reporter for Time magazine and Time Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• contributor
• journalist
• reporter
• writer