wire service

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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, esp. newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.

Also called wire agency.

Origin:
1940–45

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n. A news-gathering organization that distributes syndicated copy electronically, as by teletype or the Internet, usually to subscribers.

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

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