correspondent

[kawr-uh-spon-duh nt, kor-] /ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dənt, ˌkɒr-/
noun
1.
a person who communicates by letters.
2.
a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.
3.
a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.
4.
a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, especially at a distance.
5.
a thing that corresponds to something else.
adjective
6.
consistent, similar, or analogous; corresponding.
Origin
1375-1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin corrēspondent- (stem of corrēspondēns), present participle of corrēspondēre to correspond; see -ent
Related forms
correspondently, adverb
noncorrespondent, adjective, noun
precorrespondent, adjective
Can be confused
corespondent, correspondent.
Examples from the web for correspondent
  • In fact, this correspondent admits to having habitually left an encrypted laptop running in sleep mode in the past.
  • One correspondent has pointed out that the research skills of a graduate student should enable them to work out their likely fate.
  • Moreover, advice givers are supposed to answer only the question that the correspondent asks.
  • They are not only placed in a full light themselves, but may throw light on their correspondent ideas, which lie in obscurity.
  • Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm.
  • The monthly interest payments will be automatically charged to our correspondent bank account.
  • They underwrite loans for a loan correspondent as their sponsor.
British Dictionary definitions for correspondent

correspondent

/ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənt/
noun
1.
a person who communicates by letter or by letters
2.
a person employed by a newspaper, etc, to report on a special subject or to send reports from a foreign country
3.
a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp one in a different part of the country or abroad
4.
something that corresponds to another
adjective
5.
similar or analogous
Word Origin and History for correspondent
adj.

early 15c., "having an analogous relationship" (to), a sense taken up since 19c. by corresponding; from Medieval Latin correspondentem, present participle of correspondere (see correspond).

n.

"one who communicates with another by letters," 1620s, from correspondent (adj.). The newspaper sense is from 1711.

THE life of a newspaper correspondent, as may naturally be supposed, is one of alternate cloud and sunshine--one day basking in an Andalusian balcony, playing a rubber at the club on the off-nights of the Opera, being very musical when the handsome Prima Donna sings, and very light fantastic toeish when the lively Prima Ballerina dances; another day roughing it over the Balkan, amid sleet and snow, or starving at the tail of an ill-conditioned army, and receiving bullets instead of billets-doux. ["New Monthly Magazine," vol. 95, 1852, p.284]