BROADCAST


Meaning of BROADCAST in English

I. broad ‧ cast 1 /ˈbrɔːdkɑːst $ ˈbrɒːdkæst/ BrE AmE noun [countable]

a programme on the radio or on television:

a news broadcast

CNN’s live broadcast of the trial (=sent out at the same time as the events are happening)

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COLLOCATIONS

■ types of broadcast

▪ a radio/television broadcast

The President addressed the nation in a television broadcast.

▪ a satellite broadcast

The match was shown live in a world-wide satellite broadcast.

▪ a news broadcast

The BBC's evening news broadcast was interrupted.

▪ a party political broadcast (=a short television advertisement made by a political party)

How are party political broadcasts funded?

▪ an election broadcast (=shown before an election to persuade people to vote for a party)

a Labour party election broadcast

▪ a live broadcast (=shown or heard as it is happening)

a live television broadcast from Beijing

▪ an Internet broadcast

An Internet broadcast can reach a truly global audience.

■ verbs

▪ make/do a broadcast

He made a long broadcast over the radio.

▪ give a broadcast

The Prime Minister gave a television broadcast to the country at 10:15.

II. broadcast 2 BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle broadcast )

1 . [intransitive and transitive] to send out radio or television programmes:

The interview was broadcast live across Europe.

2 . [transitive] to tell something to a lot of people:

Don’t broadcast the fact that he lost his job.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.