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foreign correspondents

foreign correspondents is the plural of foreign correspondent.

Meaning of foreign correspondent

Noun

foreign correspondent (plural foreign correspondents)

  1. A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.
    • Oscar Vincent spent several years abroad, after graduation, acting as foreign correspondent of his father's paper.1874, Horatio Alger, chapter 36, in Risen from the Ranks
  2. (dated) 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.
    • 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.1776, Adam Smith, chapter 1, in The Wealth of Nations

Questions about foreign correspondents

What is foreign correspondents the plural of?
Foreign correspondents is the plural of foreign correspondent.

Words near foreign correspondents in the dictionary

  1. foreign aid
  2. foreign aids
  3. foreign bodies
  4. foreign body
  5. foreign correspondent
  6. foreign correspondents
  7. foreign countries
  8. foreign country
  9. foreign currencies
  10. foreign currency
  11. foreign debt

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