correspondent
/kɒrɪˈspɒnd(ə)nt
/noun
1A person who writes letters on a regular basis: she wasn’t much of a correspondent...
- I love letters, too; I think I would write more letters, if I had a regular correspondent.
- Most correspondents conclude their letters with a forename or initials.
- I suggested that my correspondent should think about writing to me with something a little more sensible.
Synonyms
letter writer, penfriend, pen pal;
communicator
2 [often with adjective or noun modifier] A person employed to report for a newspaper or broadcasting organization: a cricket correspondent...
- I remember having lunch with a foreign correspondent for a major newspaper in the early 1990s.
- In Germany in 1932, Reuters had one chief correspondent, and one full-time assistant.
- She has been a TV news correspondent, a foreign documentaries presenter and writer, and a newspaper columnist.
Synonyms
reporter, journalist, columnist, writer, contributor, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newsman, newswoman, commentator, chronicler;
special correspondent, foreign correspondent;
British pressman;
North American legman, wireman;
Australian roundsman
informal stringer, newshound, hack, hackette, journo
North American informal newsy
adjective
Corresponding.However, correspondent payment can involve payment between two banks in the same jurisdiction, if payment is to be in foreign currency.
Synonyms
corresponding, equivalent, comparable, parallel, matching, related, similar, analogous, commensurate
Origin
Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French correspondant or medieval Latin correspondent- 'corresponding', from the verb correspondere (see correspond).