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newscaster

nounattested in dialogue

One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.

noun

  1. 1

    One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.

    Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.

    Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."

    It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”

Etymology

From newscast + -er.

Forms

plural
newscasters
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).