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# correspondent

noun (a correspondent, correspondents)

«correspondent» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A reporter who sends news to a newspaper, radio or TV station from a particular place or about a particular subject, such as a war correspondent or a sports correspondent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#m1)
2. A person who writes letters to someone else regularly; two people who write to each other are correspondents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#m2)
3. (formal) A person or firm that deals with another, especially a bank that does business for another bank in a different country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and on the news a correspondent is the person reporting «live from» somewhere: «our correspondent in Paris». In stories it tells the reader someone is far away and sending information back. Phrases: «foreign correspondent», «war correspondent», «political correspondent», «a regular correspondent», «pen-pal correspondent». In school it appears in media studies and letter-writing lessons.

### Examples

- The news correspondent stood in the rain and told us about the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x1)
- Our school has a correspondent who writes for the local paper about sports day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x2)
- My nan and her old school friend have been correspondents for a very long time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x3)
- The BBC sent a correspondent to report on the bushfires. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x4)
- A sports correspondent wrote about the big match on the back page. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x5)
- The two pen pals were faithful correspondents and wrote every month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x6)
- The foreign correspondent spoke three languages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x7)
- (formal) The bank used a correspondent in another country to send the money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/#x8)

### Note

Countable: one correspondent, two correspondents. Spelled with -ent, not -ant. Do not mix up with «corresponding» (matching) or «correspondence» (letters, or a match between things). In maths «corresponding angles» uses a related word but has nothing to do with reporters. It starts with a consonant sound, so «a correspondent».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «correspondent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correspondent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«correspondent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/correspondent.html) on Mova free.