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wire service

noun

  1. a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.


wire service

noun

  1. an agency supplying news, etc, to newspapers, radio and television stations, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wire service1

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

That allows you to get at what most people were reading, which was the wire service stuff, the AP and the UPI stuff.

The Associated Press, its most widely distributed wire service.

Working for a wire service in Afghanistan is like being there for the brainstorming session, then publishing your notes.

Romney asked whether anyone from the wire service “called us before they went with the story.”

I called Mr. Dirksen and asked him for a glossy of the picture which the Associated Press sent out over the wire service.

Also, the wire service had turned out a gang of linemen and half a dozen operators.

The wire service car is the seventh car including the lead police vehicle.

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