correspondent
noun /ˌkɒrəˈspɒndənt/
/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndənt/
- She's the BBC's political correspondent.
- a foreign/war/sports correspondent
- our Delhi correspondent
Wordfinder- censorship
- correspondent
- coverage
- editor
- exclusive
- journalist
- news agency
- newspaper
- report
- stringer
Extra 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
- 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’.