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reporter|rɪˈpɔətə(r)|
Also 4–5 -our(e, 6 -ar.
[orig. a. AF. *reportour = OF. reporteur, usually raporteur (mod.F. rapporteur): see report v. In later use f. the vb. + -er1.]
1. a. One who reports or relates; a recounter or narrator. Now somewhat rare (common in 16–17th c.).
c1386Chaucer Prol. 814 That he wolde been oure gouernour And of our tales Iuge and Reportour. 1421–2Hoccleve Dialog 761 Ther-of was I noon Auctour; I was..but a reportour Of folkes tales. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 16 A reporter or contryuer of talys. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 63 b, That the reporter with more ease maie remember what he hath to saie. 1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 107 The ouer hastie reporter of this blessed newes, repaires with speed to Sir Thomas. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 2 Saint Luke is the Reporter; and onely he of all the foure records this Story. 1686Wood Life 6 July (O.H.S.) III. 191 These people..were the chief reporters that the universities were all papists. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World Pref. 9 The malice and dishonest ways that are conceal'd in the breast of the reporter. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 18 The reporters of this [mission] appear to be peculiarly imaginative. 1952P. Edwards in Shakespeare Survey V. 35 If the 1609 Quarto of Pericles is reconstructed, or ‘reported’, we should infer, from the suggestion that two hands are at work on the manuscript, that the text was compiled by two ‘reporters’.
b. With adj. denoting the character or intention of the account given.
1400in Roy. & Hist. Lett. Hen. IV (Rolls) 37 Thu hast hadde fals messageres and fals reportoures of us touchyng this matere. 1559in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. viii. 116 Most humbly beseeching the Almighty God..to pardon and forgive our Persecutors and evil Reporters. 1577Patericke tr. Gentillet 46 Slaunderers or false reporters, are like secret wounds. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxvii. (1612) 318 Their best Reporters say, these Gods were made by men. 1800H. Wells C. Neville (ed. 2) III. 92 In spite of all malignant reporters, be assured [etc.].
c. One specially appointed to make or draw up a report, or to give information of something. Also (Sc. Law), one who receives reports (on juvenile offenders).
1625in Debates Ho. Comm. (Camden) 93 A litle forme was left at the upper end of the table for the reporters. 1628Jrnls. Ho. Comm. I. 905 The Report, now made, to be brought in Writing by the Reporters To-morrow Morning. 1796Nelson 23 Aug. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 251, I am in great fear my reporter is taken. 1835in W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. (1838) 853 An accountant, engineer, or other reporter, to whom a remit may hereafter be made by the Court. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer x, The ‘reporter’ entered the Garrandilla gate, to give legal notice of the invading army of fleece-bearing locusts. 1968Social Work (Scotland) Act c. 49 s. 36(1) For the purpose of arranging children's hearings and for the performance of such other functions in relation to the children's panel or to children's hearings as may be assigned to him by this Part of this Act, a local authority shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, appoint an officer, whole-time or part-time, to be known as the reporter. 1976Howard Jrnl. XV. i. 31 The key figure in the new system is the reporter. It is his function to decide, on the basis of reports, whether the child referred to him by the police, social worker or education department is in ‘need of compulsory measures of care’.
d. U.S. A dog which finds and reports the position of a covey of birds.
1895Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 7/2 When a point was obtained, and the birds were fairly located,..the dog took his master right back to where the covey still lay crouched... Such animals are called ‘reporters’.
2. a. One who takes down reports of law-cases.
a1617Bacon Amend. Laws Eng. Wks. 1730 IV. 6 It resteth with your Majesty to appoint some sound lawyers.., with some honourable stipend, to be reporters for the time to come. 1617Act 15 Jas. I in Rymer Fœdera (1717) XVII. 27 Wee doe ordaine..that, for all times hereafter, there shall be twoe Persons..which shall be Reporters of the Law. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. Introd. 73 Besides these reporters, there are also other authors, to whom great veneration and respect is paid by the students of the common law. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 383 Confirmed by the three other Justices in separate extrajudicial conferences with the reporter. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 403/1 During the reign of Henry VIII.., Dyer, afterwards chief-justice of the Common Pleas, took notes as a reporter.
b. One who reports debates, speeches, meetings, etc., esp. for a newspaper; a person specially employed for this purpose. Also, one who does similar work for other kinds of journal, or for radio or television. Also reporter-at-large.
1798Deb. Congress U.S. 21 Mar. (1851) 1289 The House ought to render the reporters as independent..as they could be. 1802Monthly Magazine XIV. 160/1 Two cases have recently occurred within the sphere of the Reporter's observation. 1813Ld. Moira in Examiner 19 Apr. 254/1 The reporters are not allowed to make notes. 1814J. H. Lewis Ready Writer Introd. 13 The utility of Short-hand to the reporter of debates..is in itself..evident. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxviii. (ed. 3) 269 The speeches must be taken down by reporters. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens i. 9 His father..was now seeking employment as a parliamentary reporter. 1946M. McCarthy Let. in Politics Nov. 367/1 Mr. Hersey..is The New Yorker's reporter-at-large. 1968Listener 12 Sept. 322/2 Some of the strikers, including some sports reporters, had proposed a return to work... The radio reporters of France-Inter returned ten days later..and TV reporters..agreed to resume work in mid-July.
appos.1834Tait's Mag. I. 392/2 Those reporter whelps, I'm told, play the deuce with a new member where they take a spite.
c. In the titles of newspapers and periodical publications.
1797(title) The reporter, or the general observer. 1853(title) St. Helens newspaper and midweek reporter. 1870(title) Cambridge University reporter. 1956(title) Surrey county reporter. 1961(title) Rating and valuation reporter.
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a. A kind of fire-work.
b. A pistol. Obs.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2362/3 Rockets, Runers on the Line, Wheels, Reporters,..with all manner of other Fire-works were discharged. 1827Sir J. Barrington Pers. Sk. II. 36 Lord C― had a tolerable chance of becoming acquainted with my friend's reporters (a pet name for hair-triggers). 1865Cornh. Mag. XI. 166 In those days Irish gentlemen always carried their reporters or pistols with them.
4. Chem. In full reporter group. A group whose spectroscopic properties are sensitive to its chemical environment and well characterized and which is used as a means of obtaining structural information about a system or molecule in which it occurs.
1970Nature 21 Mar. 1103/1 The method is based on the anisotropy of signals from the nitroxide radical which thus acts as a ‘reporter’ of molecular motions (for example, whether the spin label is in a region of free or unrestricted movement). 1974Sci. Amer. Mar. 31/1 The method involves attaching a ‘reporter’ group, usually a nitroxide group that has an unpaired electron, to one of the carbons of a test molecule's fatty-acid tail.
5. attrib., in appositive use, and Comb., as reporter-director, reporter-material, reporter-photographer, reporter politician, reporter-researcher; reporter-like adj.
1973C. Bonington Next Horizon xx. 276 A complete film team of cameraman, sound-recordist, *reporter-director.
1909C. S. Peirce Let. 14 Mar. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. of W. James (1935) II. 440 So it is reported by my rather *reporter-like memory.
1889‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee 108 It was my purpose..to start a newspaper... So I wanted to..be finding out what sort of *reporter-material I might be able to rake together.
1978W. F. Buckley Stained Glass ii. 15 One *reporter-photographer from L'Humanité pressed for admittance.
1894G. B. Shaw Let. 2 Dec. (1965) I. 464 Surely so fine a spirit could have been rescued from the reproach of being..an ignorantly contemptuous *reporter-politician?
1976Time 27 Sept. 3/1 More than 70 Time correspondents, writers, *reporter⁓researchers and editors set out to assess the South as it is today.
Hence reˈporterize v. (nonce-wd.); reˈportership, the position or office of a reporter.
1881Athenæum 22 Jan. 125/3 His college friendship..obtained for him a reportership for that paper. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 385/1 Mr. J. H. Fordham..retired from his reportership in the Rolls Court on the death of his father. 1888Harper's Mag. July 314 Our reporterized press is often truculently reckless of privacy and decency. |