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Reuter|ˈrɔɪtə(r)|
The name of Baron Paul Julius von Reuter (1816–99), founder of a telegraphic and pigeon post bureau in Aachen in 1849, used attrib. and in the possessive to denote (the activities of) a news agency named after him, whose London headquarters were established in 1851. Also (in form Reuters) used absol.
[1859Times 31 Oct. 6/5 The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office.] 1860Times 1 Oct. 7/1 (heading) Reuter's Telegrams. 1913Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 222 No newspapers come aboard, only clipped Reuter telegrams. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xxiv. 235 A Reuters dispatch for December 13, 1962, reported from Tokyo. 1967Listener 28 Dec. 860/1 In the early days of BBC news when they were terrified of infringing the rights of newspapers they used to read out the Reuter tapes. 1969Observer 5 Oct. 1/2 Reuter correspondent Anthony Grey was a free man in Peking tonight after being held hostage by the Chinese for 26 lonely months. 1977New Yorker 3 Oct. 98/2 My guide..would be an Englishman..John Peet, who had covered Germany for Reuters, the British news agency. 1980M. Lutyens Edwin Lutyens xv. 232 Every morning Roderick's special Reuter messenger boy brought me a letter from him. |