单词 | correspondent |
释义 | correspondent —correspondently, adv. /kawr'euh spon"deuhnt, kor'-/, n. 1. a person who communicates by letters. 2. a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place. 3. a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc. 4. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp. at a distance. 5. a thing that corresponds to something else. adj. 6. consistent, similar, or analogous; corresponding. [1375-1425; late ME < ML correspondent- (s. of correspondens), prp. of correspondere to CORRESPOND; see -ENT] |
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