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Webster 1913 Edition

Reporter

Re-port′er

(-ẽr)
,
Noun.
One who reports.
Specifically:
(a)
An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
(b)
One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.
Of our tales judge and
reportour
.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Reporter

REPORTER

, n.
1.
One that gives an account, verbal or written, official or unofficial.
2.
An officer or person who makes statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.

Definition 2024

Reporter

Reporter

See also: reporter and repórter

German

Noun

Reporter m ‎(genitive Reporters, plural Reporter, feminine Reporterin)

  1. reporter

Declension

Synonyms

reporter

reporter

See also: Reporter and repórter

English

Alternative forms

Noun

reporter ‎(plural reporters)

  1. Agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.
  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. (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
  5. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Noun

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

  1. (journalism) a reporter, a journalist
Inflection

Verb

reporter

  1. imperativ of reportere

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French

Etymology 1

re- +‎ porter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/

Verb

reporter

  1. to carry something back to where it was
  2. to wear again
  3. to transfer (an emotion)
    Reporter son amour sur quelqu'un — To transfer one's love to somebody
  4. to put back; to put off; to postpone
    Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.
    • 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, ISBN 2-89021-363-3, page 116:
      Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d'attendre la find de l'enquête pour s'amuser. — Graham had put back the party, suggesting that they wait until the investigation was over to have fun.
  5. (usually impersonal) To carry or take back in time
    Il faut se reporter au mois dernier pour comprendre. — We have to go back in time amonth to understand.
  6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) To refer; to check
    Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4. — To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.
  7. (mathematics and finance) To carry over or forward
    Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3! — That idiot forgot to carry over a 3!
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁəpɔʁtɛʁ/

Noun

reporter m ‎(plural reporters)

  1. A news reporter; a journalist.
Usage notes

See also

  • reporteur

Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

reporter m, f ‎(invariable)

  1. reporter (journalist)

Latin

Verb

reporter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English reporter

Noun

reporter m ‎(definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)

  1. (journalism) a reporter

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Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English reporter

Noun

reporter m ‎(definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)

  1. (journalism) a reporter

Related terms

Derived terms

References

Old French

Etymology

re- +‎ porter[1].

Verb

reporter

  1. to bring back
  2. to gain; to get (take possession of)
    Judas reportat le argent dount Deux estoyt vendu‎
    Judas got the money of which two were sold

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of reporter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive reporter avoir reporté
gerund en reportant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle reportant
past participle reporté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses		 present report reportes reporte reportons reportez reportent
imperfect reportoie, reporteie, reportoe, reporteve reportoies, reporteies, reportoes, reporteves reportoit, reporteit, reportot, reporteve reportiiens, reportiens reportiiez, reportiez reportoient, reporteient, reportoent, reportevent
preterite reportai reportas reporta reportames reportastes reporterent
future reporterai reporteras reportera reporterons reporteroiz, reportereiz, reporterez reporteront
conditional reporteroie, reportereie reporteroies, reportereies reporteroit, reportereit reporteriiens, reporteriens reporteriiez, reporteriez reporteroient, reportereient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses		 present report reporz report reportons reportez reportent
imperfect reportasse reportasses reportast reportissons, reportissiens reportissoiz, reportissez, reportissiez reportassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— reporte — reportons reportez —

References

  1. ↑ “reporter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /repǒrteːr/
  • Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

Noun

repòrtēr m ‎(Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

  1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Declension

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁeˈpɔʁtəʁ/, [ʁeˈpʰɔɐ̯tʰɐ]

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