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correspondent

/ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/ noun B2
  1. Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
  2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
  3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

Plural correspondents

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Those gilded cashbooks, drawers locked like gates of fortresses, heaps of bank-bills, come from I know not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father’s mind, and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 949 · C1
You are bound to leave something to the intelligence of your correspondent.
The Valley of Fear, p. 9 · C1
He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 41 · B2
I used to have a correspondent—he is dead now—old Dr.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 77 · B2

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