| 单词 | roving reporter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroving reporter b. Of a person in relation to his or her job: required to travel to various locations; peripatetic. Frequently in roving reporter. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment > having a roving commission walking1591 errant1638 roving1826 1826 P. Kenny Diary 9 Sept. in Rec. Amer. Catholic Hist. Soc. Philadelphia (1898) 9 96 I am now informed that the roving Priest, noticed above..is Rev. Shanon..of Lancaster. 1850 D. Lardner Railway Econ. i. 19 The proprietors of a single morning journal are able to maintain agencies..in all the principal cities of Europe, besides roving correspondents wherever the prevalence of war, revolution, or any other public event exerts a local interest. 1860 N.Y. Herald 11 June 1/3 George Fitch, a roving reporter for republican newspapers, sometimes hailing from Michigan and sometimes from Illinois. 1938 E. Waugh Scoop iii. i. 258 (telegram) Will you accept five year contract five thousand year roving correspondent. 1970 A. Sinclair Guevara vi. 71 From 1960 onwards, Che had often served as a roving ambassador for Fidel Castro. 1998 Economist 21 Mar. 153/1 (advt.) The ESCAP roving team of railway experts. < as lemmas |
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