- a person who reports news from a particular country or on a particular subject for a newspaper or a television or radio station
- She's the BBC's political correspondent.
- a foreign/war/sports correspondent
- our Delhi correspondent
WordfinderExtra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingc1, TV, radio and newsc1- a correspondent for a Canadian newspaper
- Now, a report from our Hong Kong correspondent.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- network
- news
- newspaper
- …
- cover something
- report (something)
- write (something)
- …
- correspondent for
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- (used with an adjective) a person who writes letters, emails, etc. to another person
- She's a poor correspondent (= she does not write regularly).
- He was a vivid and witty correspondent.
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French correspondant or medieval Latin correspondent- ‘corresponding’, from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.
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