REPORTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reporter mean? 

• REPORTER (noun)
  The noun REPORTER has 1 sense:

1. a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories

  Familiarity information: REPORTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPORTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

newsman; newsperson; reporter

Hypernyms ("reporter" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reporter"):

newswoman (a female newsperson)

television newscaster; television reporter; TV newsman; TV reporter (someone who reports news stories via television)

Derivation:

report (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)

 Context examples 

"Why don't you become a reporter?" she asked when he had finished.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A FeatureReporterMap is the description of how source features are transformed into a target reporter.

(Feature Reporter Map, NCI Thesaurus)

The device was repaired and returned to the user (reporter) following a reported device problem.

(Device Repaired and Returned Evaluation Conclusion, Food and Drug Administration)

Describes how a reporter varies from its ReporterCharacteristics sequence(s) or how a Feature varies from its Reporter sequence.

(Mismatch Information, NCI Thesaurus)

"I am only here as a Press reporter," I answered.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Terminology used in Individual Case Safety Reports to specify information on an occupation of reporter, section E3 of FDA MedWatch Form.

(Occupation ICSR Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

This is generally of type feature but can be specified as reporters or compositeSequence for arrays that are abstracted from a physical array.

(Design Element, NCI Thesaurus)

The lacZ gene is a popular reporter gene in transfection experiments because its product, b-galactosidase, is very stable, resistant to proteolytic degradation, and easily assayed.

(LacZ Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The surface of a nanoparticle can also be adorned with various targeting agents, such as antibodies, drugs, imaging agents, and reporters.

(Nanoparticle, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)