CORRESPONDENT


Meaning of CORRESPONDENT in English

— correspondently , adv.

/kawr'euh spon"deuhnt, kor'-/ , n.

1. a person who communicates by letters.

2. a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.

3. a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.

4. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp. at a distance.

5. a thing that corresponds to something else.

adj.

6. consistent, similar, or analogous; corresponding.

[ 1375-1425; late ME correspondent- (s. of correspondens ), prp. of correspondere to CORRESPOND; see -ENT ]

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