reporter

[ ri-pawr-ter, -pohr- ]

/ rɪˈpɔr tər, -ˈpoʊr- /

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noun

a person who reports.

a person employed to gather and report news, as for a newspaper, wire service, or television station.

a person who prepares official reports, as of legal or legislative proceedings.

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Origin of reporter

1350–1400; Middle English reportour < Anglo-French (Old French reporteur). See report, -er¹

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A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.
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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
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When a reporter asked him a question, it would often elicit a series of Jesuitical responses.
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He subsequently asked a reporter to accompany him as he dared to share his story with the police for the first time.
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"Kate sought me out and gave me a hug just before she left," said Mrs Smith afterwards to a reporter at the Daily Mail.
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"All right, but it is the dead ones I'm after," the reporter said, taking the paper and pinning it to his notes.
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The reporter walked out of the office and wandered up to Bellevue Hospital.
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The reporter of St. Stephen's words, on the contrary, gave them to us just as they were spoken.
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Page 37, changed "his" to "this" in "reporter of this paper."
The Mission of Poubalov|Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) Burton
At twenty I came up to London and began my definite career, as a reporter.
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British Dictionary definitions for reporter

reporter

/ (rɪˈpɔːtə) /

noun

a person who reports, esp one employed to gather news for a newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization

a person, esp a barrister, authorized to write official accounts of judicial proceedings

a person authorized to report the proceedings of a legislature

(in Scotland) social welfare an official who arranges and conducts children's panel hearings and who may investigate cases and decide on the action to be taken

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Word Origin and History for reporter

reporter

late 14c., reportour, "one who gives an account," agent noun from report (v.), or from Old French reporteur (Modern French rapporteur). In the newspaper sense, from 1798. French reporter in this sense is a 19c. borrowing from English.

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