foreign correspondent

Definitions

1. 1

   A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides…

   A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.

   • Oscar Vincent spent several years abroad, after graduation, acting as foreign correspondent of his father's paper.
   • "Couldn't you be foreign correspondent for your newspaper?" "We've good men in every European capital now. They've no use for more."
   • Now that my spell as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times has ended and I’ve come back home—if a place counts as home when you’ve been away for so long—I’ve had some time to think about how Britain and America have changed.
2. 2

   A clerical employee responsible for communicating with an organization's stakeholders in…

   A clerical employee responsible for communicating with an organization's stakeholders in other countries and for processing transactions involving them; a firm employed by an organization to assume such responsibilities.

   • The secrets of business—complicated and often dismal mysteries—were buried in his breast, and never came out of their sepulchre, save now and then to scare Joe Scott, or give a start to some foreign correspondent: […]
   • [F]alling in with one of the partners of the umbrella firm in quest of French silk, he was engaged as foreign correspondent.

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