NEWS REPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does news report mean? 

• NEWS REPORT (noun)
  The noun NEWS REPORT has 1 sense:

1. a short account of the news

  Familiarity information: NEWS REPORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWS REPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short account of the news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

account; news report; report; story; write up

Context example:

the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious

Hypernyms ("news report" is a kind of...):

news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "news report"):

newsletter; newssheet (report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group)

bulletin (a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast))

communique; despatch; dispatch (an official report (usually sent in haste))

urban legend (a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true)

exclusive; scoop (a news report that is reported first by one news organization)