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Definition of "wire service" []

  • A news-gathering organization that distributes syndicated copy electronically, as by teletype or the Internet, usually to subscribers. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wire service" in a sentence
  • "Over the course of two days in November 2001, another INC-supplied defector, former Iraqi “army colonel” Sabah Khalifa Khodada al-Lami, gave a series of media interviews about Salman Pak, telling the Agence France-Presse wire service that he had worked at the training camp and had observed Arabs from a number of countries learning how to hijack planes."
  • "An AP deskman, asked about the meaning of touts atop the wire service article about welfare-to-work, quickly replied, “It means ‘speaks in favor of.’”"
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