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English

Alternative forms

• reportor (obsolete)
• reportour (obsolete)

Etymology

report +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??t?/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???po(?)?t?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???po?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Catalan: repòrter
• ? Greek: ???????? (repórter)

Anagrams

• repertor, rereport

Catalan

Alternative forms

• repòrter

Etymology

reportar +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.po??te/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.pur?te/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.po??te?/

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)

1. reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)

Further reading

• “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reporter” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

Related terms

• reportage
• reportere

French

Etymology 1

re- +? porter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p??.te/

Verb

reporter

1. (literally) to carry something back to where it was
2. (literally) 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.
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 a month 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): /??.p??.t??/

Noun

reporter m or f (plural reporters)

1. A news reporter; a journalist.

Derived terms

• grand reporter
• journaliste reporter d'images

Usage notes

• The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.

See also

• reporteur

Further reading

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

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 report?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

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

1. (journalism) a reporter

Derived terms

• krigsreporter

Related terms

• reportasje

References

• “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• krigsreporter

Related terms

• reportasje

References

• “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

re- +? porter.

Verb

reporter

1. to bring back
2. to gain; to get (take possession of)

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

• reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Etymology

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??p?r.t?r/

Noun

reporter m pers (feminine reporterka)

1. reporter

Declension

Further reading

• reporter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French reporter.

Noun

reporter m (plural reporteri)

1. reporter, journalist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rep?rte?r/
• Hyphenation: re?por?ter

Noun

repòrt?r m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Declension

English

Noun

journalists

1. plural of journalist

Danish

Noun

journalists

1. indefinite genitive singular of journalist

Swedish

Noun

journalists

1. indefinite genitive singular of journalist