correspondent

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cor·re·spon·dent | \ ˌkȯr-ə-ˈspän-dənt

, ˌkär- \

Definition of correspondent

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : corresponding

2 : fitting, conforming —used with with or to The outcome was entirely correspondent with my wishes.

correspondent

noun

Definition of correspondent (Entry 2 of 2)

1a : one who communicates with another by letter

b : one who has regular commercial relations with another

c : one who contributes news or commentary to a publication (such as a newspaper) or a radio or television network often from a distant place a war correspondent

2 : something that corresponds

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Examples of correspondent in a Sentence

Adjective reading and writing are actually correspondent activities Noun When writing to business correspondents, use a formal tone. a correspondent in the Middle East bureau just filed a new report on the coup

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun National correspondent, Lindsay Schnell, reported that selective schools, so schools that typically accept less than 50% of applicants, saw a 21% increase in applications this year. — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 4 July 2021 The Moscow correspondent of The New York Times, Walter Duranty, explained away the famine as the price of progress. — New York Times, 29 June 2021 Jon Wertheim is an author, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, and a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. — Jon Wertheim, Vulture, 25 June 2021 The NBC News correspondent, 29, and Yaraghi, a 32-year-old investment analyst at Cohen and Steers Capital Management, got engaged on Friday, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal. — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2021 Washington Post White House bureau chief, Ashley Parker, Democratic pollster, Cornell Belcher, Republican strategist Brad Todd, and PBS NewsHour chief correspondent, Amna Nawaz. — NBC News, 20 June 2021 To others, cicadas can be a creepy, inescapable nuisance (one recently crawled onto CNN's chief congressional correspondent, Manu Raju, during preparations for a live shot). — Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 9 June 2021 Welcome back, our guest today is our colleague WIRED senior correspondent, Adam Rogers. — Wired Staff, Wired, 28 May 2021 The paper assigned a veteran Pentagon correspondent, Helene Cooper, to work with Kean and Blumenthal. — Gideon Lewis-kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021

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History and Etymology for correspondent

Adjective

Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French, from Medieval Latin correspondent-, correspondens, present participle of correspondēre — see correspond

Noun

see correspond

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