correspondent
cor·res·pon·dent
noun
2.
a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
adjective
1.
similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
- “brains and computers are often considered analogous”
- “surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat”
Origin
From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.
Phrases
- foreign correspondent
- great minds think alike
- lobby correspondent
- news correspondent
- war correspondent
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