reporter

English

/ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/, /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/, /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/, /ɹɪˈpoətə/

noun
Definitions
  • Someone or something that reports.
  • A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
  • A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
  • (legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
  • (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Etymology

Affix from English report (recount, describe).

Origin

English

report

Gloss

recount, describe

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