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reportor

reportor is the obsolete form of reporter.

Meaning of reporter

Noun

reporter (plural reporters)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    rapporteur
  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.

Forms of reportor

pluralreportors

Questions about reportor

What is reportor the obsolete form of?
Reportor is the obsolete form of reporter.

Words near reportor in the dictionary

  1. reportioned
  2. reportioning
  3. reportions
  4. reportive
  5. reportives
  6. reportor
  7. reportorial
  8. reportorially
  9. reportors
  10. reportour
  11. reportours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reportor (page history and authors); reporter (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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