Definition of "correspondent" []

• One who communicates by means of letters. (noun)
• One employed by the print or broadcast media to supply news stories or articles: a foreign correspondent. (noun)
• One that has regular business dealings with another, especially at a distance. (noun)
• Something that corresponds; a correlative. (noun)
• Corresponding. (adjective)

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.

• "Now, when you call overseas, and if your correspondent is a person of interest, there†™ s a slight chance that your call is being monitored by the NSA."
• "When the doctor realizes that the hapless correspondent is the perfect subject for his next experiment, he drugs the unfortunate man and injects him with a serum that gradually transforms him into a hideous, two-headed monster."
• "Miami Herald Latin American correspondent Oppenheimer traveled all over Mexico between 1992 and 1995, and this crisply written, eye-opening report depicts a country in the throes of political turmoil, corruption, peasant rebellions and massive layoffs."