cor´re|spond´ent|ly

cor´re|spond´ent|ly
cor|re|spond|ent «KR uh SPON duhnt, KOR-», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a) a person who exchanges letters with another: »

My mother and her sister have been regular correspondents for years, writing to each other weekly.

b) a person who contributes letters to a newspaper, magazine, or other publication. c) a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television network to send news from a particular place: »

a White House correspondent. The “New York Times” has correspondents in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and other countries.

2. a person or company that has regular business with another in a distant place: »

This bank has correspondents in all the large cities of the world.

3. a thing that corresponds to something else; correlative.
–adj.
corresponding; analogous; matching: »

correspondent ideas, anatomically correspondent parts.

 SYNONYM(S): congruous, conformable, suitable.
–cor´re|spond´ent|ly, adverb.

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