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noun

Correspondent n.

One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.

One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

(Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

adjective

Correspondent adj. Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. "Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law." "As fast the correspondent passions rise." "I will be correspondent to command."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Correspondent" Quotes from Famous Books

... all sorts of calls at the Foreign Office, seeing callers, and going about to the different Legations. Granville Fortescue came in from Ostend, and I should have put him to work but that he had plans of his own and has decided to blossom forth as a war correspondent. He is all for getting to the "front" ...

— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson

... cheap small dictionaries of the same edition, send one to your correspondent with an intimation that he is to read up or down so many words from the one indicated when receiving a message. Thus, if I want to say "Claim is looking well," I take a shilling dictionary, send a copy ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson

... question to determine how far it is better to obey poor, or even bad, directions or to criticise them in the hope of getting better. But the course of the war since that correspondence and the revival of the idea of a raid by your military correspondent provoke me to return to this discussion. Frankly, I do not believe in that raid, and I think we play the German game in letting our minds dwell upon it. I am supposed to be a person of feverish imagination, but even by lashing my imagination to its ruddiest ...

— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various

... made a splendid haul, bringing into camp that celebrated, devil-may-care animal, the war-correspondent. His story was that he had wandered out of Ladysmith with a packet of newspapers—"merely to exchange notes and to challenge you for a ...

— With Steyn and De Wet • Philip Pienaar

... anticipated. He did not love writing letters, and will be found somewhere in the following pages referring to himself as one "essentially and originally incapable of the art epistolary." That he was a bad correspondent had come to be an accepted view among his friends; but in truth it was only during one period of his life that he at all deserved such a reproach.[1] At other times, as became apparent after his death, he had shown a degree of industry and spirit ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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