newscast

[nooz-kast, -kahst, nyooz-] Origin

news·cast

[nooz-kast, -kahst, nyooz-]
noun
a broadcast of news on radio or television.

Origin:
1925–30; news + (broad)cast

news·cast·er, noun
news·cast·ing, noun
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Newscast is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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newscast (ˈnjuːzˌkɑːst)
 
n
a radio or television broadcast of the news
 
[C20: from news + (broad)cast]
 
'newscaster
 
n

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Word Origin & History

newscast
1930, from news + -cast, from broadcast.
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