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radio microphone

British  

noun

  1. a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely

"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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Sandee Althouse displays her first tattoo, an old-timey radio microphone and “on air” sign.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

He told the FBI he was delayed because his gun was tangled up in his radio microphone cord.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

And in 1952 he repositioned Walter Cronkite, a 35-year-old commentator, from his comfort zone behind a radio microphone to anchor the first television broadcast of the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2019

In what was an innovative approach for the time, an Indian man was fitted with a BBC radio microphone to record his experience of trying to get a haircut.

From BBC • May 31, 2016

He jerked his chin toward a pale man with watery blue eyes who crouched over a radio microphone.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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