[nooz-wahyuh
r, nyooz-] 
| 1. | a service transmitted esp. by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires. |
| 2. | a teletypewriter or other machine by which such information is transmitted or received. |
| news·wire (nōōz'wīr', nyōōz'-) n. A wire service that transmits up-to-the-minute news, usually electronically, to the media and often the public. |