foreign correspondent

plural foreign correspondents

1. journalismA reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.

   Oscar Vincent spent several years abroad, after graduation, acting as foreign correspondent of his father's paper.

   1874, Horatio Alger, chapter 36, in Risen from the Ranks

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   "Couldn't you be foreign correspondent for your newspaper?" "We've good men in every European capital now. They've no use for more."

   1922, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 35, in Black Oxen

   Now that my spell as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times has ended and I’ve come back home—if a place counts as home when you’ve been away for so long—I’ve had some time to think about how Britain and America have changed.

   2013 Auugst 17, Sarah Lyall, "Dispatch: Ta-Ta, London. Hello, Awesome.," New York Times (18 June 2014)

2. datedbusinessA clerical employee responsible for communicating with an organization's stakeholders in other countries and for processing transactions involving them; a firm employed by an organization to assume such responsibilities.

   The German had resumed his situation as commercial clerk and foreign correspondent to Eckermann & Co.

   1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 28, in The Firm of Girdlestone

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   When the government, or those who acted under them, contracted with a merchant for a remittance to some foreign country, he would naturally endeavour to pay his foreign correspondent, upon whom he granted a bill, by sending abroad rather commodities than gold and silver.

   1776, Adam Smith, chapter 1, in The Wealth of Nations

   The secrets of business—complicated and often dismal mysteries—were buried in his breast, and never came out of their sepulchre, save now and then to scare Joe Scott, or give a start to some foreign correspondent: […]

   1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Noah and Moses”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 176

   [F]alling in with one of the partners of the umbrella firm in quest of French silk, he was engaged as foreign correspondent.

   1885, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 17, in Nuttie's Father