noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone or something that reports.

   "The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer."

2. 2
   a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories wordnet
3. 3
   A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
4. 4
   A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
5. 5
   A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

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6. 6
   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.

Synonyms

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journalista tale-bearing animaladviseranchormanannouncerannunciator

Example

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"You are doing well for a cub reporter."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

case reportercourt reportercub reporterlaw reportermandated reportermandatory reporterpolice reporterpool reporterreporter's notesideline reportercase reporter

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.