Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lobby correspondent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: lob-by -cor-re-spon-dent
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials.

British usage

Example Sentences

"Another paper reported that the GMB's decision to cut back the cash it gives to the Labour Party was all down to Gordon Brown. The evidence for this was that a lobby correspondent saw the GMB boss, Kevin Curran, talking to Douglas Henderson MP, a Brown supporter, on the Commons terrace bar. The hack probably didn’t even realise that Doug was a GMB member."

Etymology

So called from journalists who were given access to the private members' lobby in the House of Commons, later becoming a more generic term for all such journalists in Parliament.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

lobby correspondents (plural)

Questions

What does lobby correspondent mean?: A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials.
Where does lobby correspondent come from?: So called from journalists who were given access to the private members' lobby in the House of Commons, later becoming a more generic term for all such journalists in Parliament.

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