reporter

[ri-pawr-ter, -pohr-]

noun

1. a person who reports.

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

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

reporter

/ rɪˈpɔːtə /

noun

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

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

3. a person authorized to report the proceedings of a legislature

4. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of reporter¹

1350–1400; Middle English reportour < Anglo-French ( Old French reporteur ). See report, -er ¹

Example Sentences

He didn’t wear a shoe on his left foot during the second half and afterward told reporters he was “hurting like crazy.”

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The neighbor, who declined to give her name, told a Times reporter Wednesday that she recognized Rinderknecht but had few dealings with him.

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Speaking to reporters on the plane on the way to Mumbai, Sir Keir said visas "played no part" in the trade deal with India and that situation had not changed.

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"We have a really good chance of making a deal, and it'll be a lasting deal," the president told reporters at the White House on Monday.

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The US president told reporters that the relationship between the two neighbours was one of "natural conflict".

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