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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Also called wire agency.
Origin of wire service
First recorded in 1940–45
Words nearby wire service
wirer, wire recorder, wire recording, wireroom, wire rope, wire service, wire side, wiresonde, wirespun, wire-stitch, wiretap
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British Dictionary definitions for wire service
wire service
noun
mainly US and Canadian an agency supplying news, etc, to newspapers, radio and television stations, etc
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