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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
correspondent
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a war correspondent (=a reporter sending reports from a war)
▪ Being a war correspondent is a dangerous job.
court correspondent
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
▪ And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman, the foreign correspondent, interrupted their tete-a-tete.
▪ It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
▪ The movement was not all one way. Foreign correspondents, for instance, dropped sharply.
▪ Government officials failed also in another hide-and-seek game with foreign correspondents.
▪ Bob Newman, foreign correspondent, frowned as he drove his Mercedes 280E across the loneliness of Suffolk in February.
▪ The access of foreign correspondents to government officials and documents is comparable to that in the United States.
▪ Mark had idolised foreign correspondents ever since he began in newspapers.
▪ Even in the rarefied world of foreign correspondents, Simon is a standout.
political
▪ It's an analysis piece by our political correspondent, Mattie Storin.
▪ The political correspondents had all been carried away.
▪ Our political correspondent Fiona Ross is at Westminster and she joins us live.
▪ The reports of the political correspondents, who had all faxed their copy while still sober the evening before were generally downbeat.
▪ This report from our political correspondent, Fiona Ross.
■ NOUN
news
▪ Another wants to be an international news correspondent.
▪ Somehow news correspondents covering the administration, including me, never grasped the full extent of the guerrilla war within the administration.
newspaper
▪ The remarks of officials and newspaper correspondents provide detailed information about the crime.
▪ Such was the invitation which the newspaper correspondents received on the morning of August 1, 1861.
▪ During a recent three-year tour of duty as a newspaper correspondent in the Middle East I found abundant cause for both.
war
▪ Bill Herbert was fortunate to be sent overseas as a war correspondent.
▪ Neither one would make a good war correspondent.
▪ He would have made a lousy war correspondent.
▪ Being a war correspondent is a genuinely dangerous job, just like they portray it in the movies.
▪ Casimir left Dublin for the Balkans as a war correspondent and enlistment.
▪ For surveyors and civil engineers, relief workers and war correspondents, the ultimate mobile phone looks like a bargain.
■ VERB
become
▪ This became the necessary London correspondent and support of the quite prosperous Taylors &038; Lloyds.
write
▪ The bulletin includes articles from other publications as well as those written by its own correspondents throughout the region.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Schools in Crisis", by our education correspondent Nick Bacon.
▪ a White House correspondent
▪ He joined ABC as its chief foreign correspondent in 2000.
▪ He left his local paper to become the Daily Telegraph's defence correspondent.
▪ Martin Bell worked for many years as the BBC's war correspondent, covering conflicts all over the world.
▪ We now go over to our correspondent in Lisbon for a report on the election.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Foreign publications have been criticised for alleged one-sided reporting and their correspondents have been denied visas.
▪ He fell in love with it; a lot of correspondents did.
▪ He has been a reporter, Washington correspondent, system editor, state editor and Baltimore County bureau chief.
▪ She was a reporter with the City Press, and an occasional correspondent for the Star - a radical national daily.
▪ So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world.
▪ Such was the invitation which the newspaper correspondents received on the morning of August 1, 1861.
▪ The bulletin includes articles from other publications as well as those written by its own correspondents throughout the region.
▪ This report from our political correspondent, Fiona Ross.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Correspondent

Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\ (-ent), a. [Cf. F. correspondant.] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
--Hooker.

As fast the correspondent passions rise.
--Thomson.

I will be correspondent to command.
--Shak.

Correspondent

Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\, n.

  1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
    --Macaulay.

  2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

  3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
correspondent

early 15c., "having an analogous relationship" (to), a sense taken up since 19c. by corresponding; from Medieval Latin correspondentem, present participle of correspondere (see correspond).

correspondent

"one who communicates with another by letters," 1620s, from correspondent (adj.). The newspaper sense is from 1711.\n\nTHE life of a newspaper correspondent, as may naturally be supposed, is one of alternate cloud and sunshine
--one day basking in an Andalusian balcony, playing a rubber at the club on the off-nights of the Opera, being very musical when the handsome Prima Donna sings, and very light fantastic toeish when the lively Prima Ballerina dances; another day roughing it over the Balkan, amid sleet and snow, or starving at the tail of an ill-conditioned army, and receiving bullets instead of billets-doux.

["New Monthly Magazine," vol. 95, 1852, p.284]

Wiktionary
correspondent

a. 1 corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous. 2 (context with to or with English) conforming; obedient. n. 1 Someone who or something which corresponds. 2 A journalist who sends reports to his newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

WordNet
correspondent
  1. adj. similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat" [syn: analogous]

  2. n. someone who communicates by means of letters [syn: letter writer]

  3. a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]

Wikipedia
Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for magazines, or more speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the original practice of filing news reports via postal letter. The largest networks of correspondents belong to ARD (Germany) and BBC (UK).

Correspondent (disambiguation)

A correspondent is a reporter. Other variants include:

  • The Correspondent, a foreign affairs and defense publication produced by Harvard University between 1961 and 1965
  • De Correspondent (in English also The Correspondent), a Dutch news website
  • The Sunday Correspondent, a short-lived British weekly newspaper
  • Co-respondent, the "other person" in a suit for divorce on grounds of adultery.
  • Correspondent bank, a bank's foreign agent that operates on its behalf in that country.

Foreign correspondent may refer to:

  • Foreign correspondent (journalism)
  • Foreign Correspondent (film), an Alfred Hitchcock film
  • Foreign Correspondent (TV series), an Australian current affairs programme

Usage examples of "correspondent".

Fleming and Hees submitted drafts of their intended remarks to the Prime Minister, had them approved, then flew to Accra accompanied by six Canadian correspondents.

From experience he knew the kinds of men such upheavals could give rise to, Adams told another correspondent.

Rush wrote to Jefferson to assure him that posterity would acclaim the reconciliation and that Jefferson was certain to find Adams a refreshing correspondent.

Bilgewater Junction, the base attempt of the Drug Trust to boost the price of quinine foiled in the House by Congressman Jinks, the first tall poplar struck by lightning and the usual stunned picknickers who had taken refuge, the first crack of the ice jam in the Allegheny River, the finding of a violet in its mossy bed by the correspondent at Round Corners - these are the advance signs of the burgeoning season that are wired into the wise city, while the farmer sees nothing but winter upon his dreary fields.

We sit side-by-side on the sofa watching the calm, perfectly-coifed anchorperson coordinate her own commentary with cuts to correspondents in various parts of North America and abroad.

New York correspondents of the Banca Commerciale Italiana fifty thousand dollars, and have instructions cabled to the Messina branch of that bank to pay the sum to the written order of John Merrick.

He was a close correspondent of the notorious Baudelairean poet Justin Geoffrey, who wrote The People of the Monolith and died screaming in a madhouse in 1926 after a visit to a sinister, ill-regarded village in Hungary.

He urged the frustrated postal clerk to move to Bialystok, where local businesses were eagerly seeking German teachers and correspondents to German business houses.

II RELATIONS WITH THE INQUISITORS Soon after reaching Venice, Casanova learned that the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, following the example of other German princes, wished a Venetian correspondent for his private affairs.

Lochryan, in Wigtonshire, to Hightae, in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, and an account of this remarkable structure, together with a narrative of his discovery of Roman remains in Wigtonshire, greatly interested his indefatigable correspondent.

Aircrew casualties: 228 dead, 60 prisoners of war, 2 evaders, together with 2 war correspondents killed and 1 taken prisoner.

He concluded, therefore, that the whole was a fiction, and that Jones, of whom he had often from his correspondents heard the wildest character, had in reality run away from his father.

I listen to Gavin, our Central Africa correspondent, giving us the story so far: According to the Congolese government in Kinshasa, a Rwandan-backed putsch has been nipped in the bud, thanks to a brilliantly executed security operation based on first-class intelligence.

Government leaders denounced the terrorism in the Sri Lankan media and refused visas to international correspondents who applied to cover the story.

Here was Hideyoshi lightheartedly dictating some very frank words, almost as if he were sitting cross-legged in front of his correspondent, having a friendly chat.