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cub reporter

cub reporter noun: a young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine.

Noun

cub reporter (plural cub reporters)

  1. (dated) A young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine.
    • The cub-reporter cannot make a name for himself unless he is favoured by fortune.1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in Psmith, Journalist
    • He had begun at 18 as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star.1967, Carlos Baker, "His Beat Was The World," (review of By-line: Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White), New York Times, 28 May, p. SM49

cub reporter meaning in Tamil

cub reporter in Tamil

பட்டறிவிலாச் செய்தியாளர்

Examples of cub reporter in a sentence

  • Like a cub reporter aspiring to be the next David Brinkley, Seacrest is, in a way, applying for a job that no longer exists.2004 January 20, James Poniewozik, “Shallow Like a Fox”, in Time:
  • I was a cub reporter, with limited insight, for the public broadcaster.2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The...

Forms of cub reporter

pluralcub reporters
alternative formcub-reporter

Questions about cub reporter

What does cub reporter mean?
Cub reporter means a young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine.
What is cub reporter in Tamil?
Cub reporter in Tamil is பட்டறிவிலாச் செய்தியாளர். See Cub reporter meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cub reporter in a sentence?
Like a cub reporter aspiring to be the next David Brinkley, Seacrest is, in a way, applying for a job that no longer exists.
What part of speech is cub reporter?
Cub reporter is a noun.
What is the plural of cub reporter?
The plural of cub reporter is cub reporters.

Words near cub reporter in the dictionary

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  2. Cuautles
  3. cub
  4. cub fos
  5. cub porn
  6. cub reporter
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  8. Cub Scout
  9. Cub Scouts
  10. Cub's honor
  11. cub-reporter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cub reporter (page history and authors); cub reporter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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