correspondent

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This made me think that my correspondent was an arrant block-head.

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  1. noun One who communicates by means of letters.
  2. noun One employed by the print or broadcast media to supply news stories or articles: a foreign correspondent.
  3. noun One that has regular business dealings with another, especially at a distance.

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  • This made me think that my correspondent was an arrant block- head After reading through the list, I wrote who I was, how I had been arrested, my ignorance as to what crime I had committed, and my hope of soon becoming free. —  Under the Leads
  • To fulfil the duties of a correspondent is an insoluble problem for your very grateful and devoted friend, F. Liszt Rome, December 8th, 1887. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
  • The leading member of the syndicate went to London and a secret interview with our correspondent was arranged. —  The Romance and Tragedy
  • Or, if he had not time to go to the bottom of all Beattie's deep letter, as he says he has not, he might have referred his correspondent—for his correspondent was a well-read student—to a great sermon by the greatest of English Churchmen—a sermon that a reader like Rutherford must surely have had by heart, entitled, 'A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith in the Elect.' —  Samuel Rutherford
  • Your correspondent is a woman who has some connection with the chemical works we saw this morning. —  Spinsters in Jeopardy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 17
 

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  1. = D. Danish Swedish korrespondent = German correspondent, from French correspondant = Spanish correspondiente = Portuguese correspondente = Italian corrispondente, from Middle Latin *corresponden(t-)s, present participle of *correspondere, correspond: see correspond.
 

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/kɑrɛˈspɑndənt/
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