reporter

See also: Reporter and repórter

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

report + -er.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

reporter (plural reporters)

  1. Someone or something that reports.
    The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
  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.

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Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

reportar + -er

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /rə.poɾˈte/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /rə.purˈte/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /re.poɾˈteɾ/

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)

  1. reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)

Further reading


Cebuano

Etymology

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

Noun

reporter

  1. someone or something that reports
  2. a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television

Danish

Noun

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

  1. (journalism) a reporter, a journalist

Inflection

Verb

reporter

  1. imperativ of reportere

French

Etymology 1

re- + porter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
  • (file)

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, 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  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

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/

Noun

reporter m or f (plural reporters)

  1. A news reporter; a journalist.
Usage notes

See also

  • reporteur

Further reading


Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

reporter m or f (invariable)

  1. reporter (journalist)

Latin

Verb

reporter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

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

  1. (journalism) a reporter

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

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

  1. (journalism) a reporter

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.

References

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

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

Noun

reporter m pers (feminine reporterka)

  1. reporter

Declension

Further reading


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

  1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Declension

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