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stringer
[ string-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that strings.
- a long horizontal timber connecting upright posts.
- Architecture. string ( def 15b ).
- Civil Engineering. a longitudinal bridge girder for supporting part of a deck or railroad track between bents or piers.
- a longitudinal reinforcement in the fuselage or wing of an airplane.
- Also called string correspondent. Journalism. a part-time newspaper correspondent covering a local area for a paper published elsewhere: Compare staffer ( def 2 ).
The Los Angeles paper has a correspondent in San Francisco but only a stringer in Seattle.
- a contestant, player, or other person ranked according to skill or accomplishment (used in combination):
Most of the conductors at the opera house were third-stringers.
- Mining. a small vein or seam of ore, coal, etc.
stringer
/ ˈ²õ³Ù°ùɪŋə /
noun
- architect
- a long horizontal beam that is used for structural purposes
- another name for stringboard
- nautical a longitudinal structural brace for strengthening the hull of a vessel
- a journalist retained by a newspaper or news service on a part-time basis to cover a particular town or area
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
Video from the stringer service OnScene.TV shows a stalled pickup truck on the shoulder of the freeway with a gaping hole in the windshield.
“For me personally, the film is about finding the stringer,†said Nguyen.
Then it was back to collecting Djokovic's racquets and taking them to the stringer.
Quillin, meanwhile, is a stringer for news services and often goes to the scenes of breaking news to record video.
Chandrakar used to also work as a "stringer" for news organisations, where his job involved providing outstation journalists with information about a story or sometimes, even chaperoning them through Maoist strongholds.
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