word-vault/dist/data/cards/co/correspondent.json

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{
    "term": "correspondent",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who reports news from a particular country or on a particular subject for a newspaper or a television or radio station",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's the BBC's political correspondent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **foreign/war/sports correspondent**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "our Delhi correspondent"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a correspondent for a Canadian newspaper"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now, a report from our Hong Kong correspondent."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing", "TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["network", "news", "newspaper"],
                "correspondent + verb": [
                    "cover something",
                    "report (something)",
                    "write (something)"
                ],
                "preposition": ["correspondent for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who writes letters, emails, etc. to another person",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's a poor correspondent *(= she does not write regularly)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a vivid and witty correspondent."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkɒrəˈspɒndənt/",
                "audio": "co/correspondent/correspondent__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndənt/",
                "audio": "co/correspondent/correspondent__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French correspondant or medieval Latin correspondent- ‘corresponding’, from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’."
}