1. a person who reports news from a particular place or on a particular subject
2. a person who writes letters regularly to another person

1. having a close similarity; matching or equivalent
Usage: formal

Examples

• The war correspondent reported from the front lines.
• She works as a foreign correspondent for a major newspaper.
• They have been correspondents for over twenty years, exchanging letters monthly.
• My pen pal and I are faithful correspondents.
• The correspondent angles in the two triangles are equal.
• Each department has a correspondent role in the new organization.
• The correspondent increase in sales matched our marketing efforts.