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wire service

noun

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.

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Also called wire agency.

Origin:
1940–45

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wire service

—n
	chiefly (US), (Canadian) an agency supplying news, etc, to newspapers, radio and television stations, etc

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Main Entry:	wire service
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	See news service

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