reporter
[ri-pawr-ter, -pohr-]
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Origin of reporter
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Contemporary Examples
A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.
This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
When a reporter asked him a question, it would often elicit a series of Jesuitical responses.
He subsequently asked a reporter to accompany him as he dared to share his story with the police for the first time.
"Kate sought me out and gave me a hug just before she left," said Mrs Smith afterwards to a reporter at the Daily Mail.
Historical Examples
The reporter stood with clenched fists and flashing eyes, hesitating.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
His remarkable words were taken down by a reporter on the spot.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
Then a reporter leaped aboard, and ere I could gasp held me in his toils.
American NotesRudyard Kipling
You told me, I remember, that he is the reporter of the Congregation in that affair of your book.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
And I was as blue a reporter of life as ever chewed his pencil.
The HarborErnest Poole
reporter
- 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
n.
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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