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wire service

noun

a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.

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Nearby words

  1. wire house,
  2. wire netting,
  3. wire recorder,
  4. wire recording,
  5. wire rope,
  6. wire side,
  7. wire transfer,
  8. wire vine,
  9. wire wheel,
  10. wire wool

Origin of wire service

First recorded in 1940–45
Also called wire agency.
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British Dictionary definitions for wire agency

wire service

noun

mainly US and Canadian an agency supplying news, etc, to newspapers, radio and television stations, etc
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