Meaning of CORRESPONDENT
| Pronunciation: | | `kori'spândunt
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- [n] someone who communicates by means of letters
- [n] a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
- [adj] similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat"
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| | Synonyms: | | analogous, letter writer, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman, similar |
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| | See Also: | | communicator, journalist, pen pal, pen-friend | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
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