reporter

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ɹɪˈpɔː.tə//
United States//ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ//
United States/[ɹɪˈpoɹ.ɾɚ]/
//ɹɪˈpo(ː).ɹtɚ//
//ɹɪˈpoə.tə//

Someone or something that reports.

noun

1
Someone or something that reports.
The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
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.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural: reporters

replicate · To make a copy (replica) of.reply · To give a written or spoken response, especially to a…report · To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount,…

reporter · Someone or something that reports.

reporting · The creation of reports. Such creation in business,…represent · To present again or anew; to present by means of something…representation · That which represents something else.

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