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WIRE SERVICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wire service mean?
• WIRE SERVICE (noun)
The noun WIRE SERVICE has 1 sense:
1. an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically
Familiarity information: WIRE SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
news agency; news organisation; news organization; press agency; press association; wire service
Hypernyms ("wire service" is a kind of...):
agency (a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wire service"):
syndicate (a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication)
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