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reporter.

Someone or something that reports.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/Received-Pronunciation/ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/General-American[ɹɪˈpoɹ.ɾɚ]General-American/ɹɪˈpo(ː).ɹtɚ/
  1. Someone or something that reports.

    The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
  2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.

  3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.

  4. A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

  5. 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.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.

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