English Explanatory Dictionary

reporter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone or something that reports.
  2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
  3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
  4. A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
  5. A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/ /ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/ [ɹɪˈpoɹ.ɾɚ] en-us-reporter.ogg /ɹɪˈpo(ː).ɹtɚ/ /ɹɪˈpoə.tə/

Word forms

reporter reporters reportor reportour

Etymology

From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.

Related words

news report reporting rapporteur

Derived words

bioreporter case reporter coreporter court reporter cub reporter law reporter mandated reporter mandatory reporter police reporter pool reporter reporteress reporterism reporterly reportership reporter's note reportress sideline reporter
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