foreign correspondent
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.
noun
A clerical employee responsible for communicating with an organization's stakeholders in other countries and for processing transactions involving them; a firm employed by an organization to assume such responsibilities.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "Oscar Vincent spent several years abroad, after graduation, acting as foreign correspondent of his father's paper."
- ""Couldn't you be foreign correspondent for your newspaper?" "We've good men in every European capital now. They've no use for more.""
- "Now that my spell as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times has ended and I’ve come back home—if a place counts as home when you’ve been away for so long—I’ve had some time to think about how Britain and America have changed."
- "When the government, or those who acted under them, contracted with a merchant for a remittance to some foreign country, he would naturally endeavour to pay his foreign correspondent, upon whom he granted a bill, by sending abroad rather commodities than gold and silver."
- "The secrets of business—complicated and often dismal mysteries—were buried in his breast, and never came out of their sepulchre, save now and then to scare Joe Scott, or give a start to some foreign correspondent: […]"
- "[F]alling in with one of the partners of the umbrella firm in quest of French silk, he was engaged as foreign correspondent."