--- title: C — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 77 description: The 1959 words of the English dictionary under C, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / C # C — The English dictionary · page 77 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A coronation is the ceremony when a king or queen is crowned and officially becomes ruler.[↗](../../coronation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Crowds watched the king's coronation on TV.[↗](../../coronation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The coronation took place in Westminster Abbey.[↗](../../coronation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our street held a party for the coronation.[↗](../../coronation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma made coronation chicken sandwiches.[↗](../../coronation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The crown is placed on the king's head at the coronation.[↗](../../coronation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The coronation coach was covered in gold.[↗](../../coronation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **coronavirus** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* One of a family of viruses that can cause illnesses in people and animals, from a common cold to serious illnesses.[↗](../../coronavirus/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Under a microscope they have spikes that look like a crown.[↗](../../coronavirus/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (everyday) The virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic that spread around the world from 2020, and the illness it caused.[↗](../../coronavirus/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The coronavirus spread around the world in 2020.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Coronaviruses are named after the crown-like spikes on their surface.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · During the coronavirus lockdown we had school on the computer.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some colds are caused by a coronavirus.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands to stop viruses like the coronavirus spreading.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists made vaccines against the coronavirus.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My nan stayed home a lot while the coronavirus was spreading.[↗](../../coronavirus/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **coronet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A coronet is a small crown worn by a noble, such as a count or a duke; it is less grand than a king's crown.[↗](../../coronet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The count wore a gold coronet on his head.[↗](../../coronet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The silver coronet sparkled in the candlelight.[↗](../../coronet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Only nobles were allowed to wear a coronet.[↗](../../coronet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **corporal** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A corporal is a soldier with a low rank, above a private, who is in charge of a small group of soldiers.[↗](../../corporal/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) Corporal (adjective) means to do with the body.[↗](../../corporal/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Corporal Jones led his section across the field.[↗](../../corporal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A corporal is in charge of a few soldiers.[↗](../../corporal/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In Victorian schools, corporal punishment with a cane was common.[↗](../../corporal/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Corporal punishment is not allowed in schools in the UK.[↗](../../corporal/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The private saluted the corporal.[↗](../../corporal/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My great-grandad was a corporal in the war.[↗](../../corporal/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **corporate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Corporate means to do with a large company or business: «a corporate office», «corporate logo».[↗](../../corporate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Corporate means shared by a whole group: «corporate responsibility».[↗](../../corporate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal, sometimes negative) Corporate describes something that feels businesslike, dull or made for profit.[↗](../../corporate/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dad works in a corporate office in the city.[↗](../../corporate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The match had a corporate sponsor.[↗](../../corporate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Companies have a corporate duty to protect the environment.[↗](../../corporate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The new logo looks very corporate.[↗](../../corporate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She wore a corporate suit to the meeting.[↗](../../corporate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The school got a corporate gift of laptops.[↗](../../corporate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **corporation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A corporation is a large company or group of companies that is treated by law as one body.[↗](../../corporation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK) A corporation can be a group of people who run a town or city, the town council.[↗](../../corporation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old-fashioned, humorous) A corporation was a big round belly.[↗](../../corporation/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He works for a large corporation.[↗](../../corporation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.[↗](../../corporation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some corporations have offices in many countries.[↗](../../corporation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The city corporation cleans the streets.[↗](../../corporation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The corporation made a profit last year.[↗](../../corporation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A corporation is owned by its shareholders.[↗](../../corporation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · John ran as hard as he could into the town, and found the mayor and corporation.[↗](../../corporation/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **corporeal** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Having to do with the body, or made of physical matter rather than spirit.[↗](../../corporeal/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tongue is, as it were, the descriptive pen of all the spiritual issues, and the genital parts are the originators of the corporeal substances.[↗](../../corporeal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../corporeal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so-called because it forms every body which is formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.[↗](../../corporeal/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../corporeal/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so called because it forms every body which is, formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.[↗](../../corporeal/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../corporeal/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **corps** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A part of an army with a special job, like the medical corps or the Marine Corps.[↗](../../corps/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A group of people who work together on a special task, like the press corps or a dance corps.[↗](../../corps/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (ballet) The corps de ballet: the group of dancers who dance together, not the soloists.[↗](../../corps/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He joined the Army Medical Corps as a nurse.[↗](../../corps/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The US Marine Corps is part of the American armed forces.[↗](../../corps/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Peace Corps sends volunteers to help other countries.[↗](../../corps/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The press corps waited outside for the prime minister.[↗](../../corps/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She dances in the corps de ballet.[↗](../../corps/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **corpse** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The dead body of a person, and sometimes of an animal.[↗](../../corpse/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, slang, theatre) To «corpse» is to burst out laughing by accident while acting, when you should be serious.[↗](../../corpse/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The detective found a corpse in the library.[↗](../../corpse/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The old story tells of a corpse that walked at night.[↗](../../corpse/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Flies laid their eggs on the bird's corpse.[↗](../../corpse/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Egyptians wrapped a corpse in cloth to make a mummy.[↗](../../corpse/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He looked as pale as a corpse after the roller coaster.[↗](../../corpse/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The actor corpsed and couldn't stop giggling on stage.[↗](../../corpse/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They both bent over the corpse.[↗](../../corpse/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The horseman charging, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; and a multitude of slain, and a heap of carcases; and there is no end of the corpses, and they stumble upon their corpses; (Prophets NAM.3.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../corpse/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.[↗](../../corpse/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.37.36, JPS 1917)[↗](../../corpse/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **corpulence** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal, old-fashioned) Corpulence is being very fat or heavy in the body.[↗](../../corpulence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old king's corpulence made it hard for him to ride.[↗](../../corpulence/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the cook's corpulence was described in detail.[↗](../../corpulence/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors once used «corpulence» for being very overweight.[↗](../../corpulence/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Corpulence can be linked to health problems.[↗](../../corpulence/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The portrait hid the duke's corpulence.[↗](../../corpulence/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He joked about his own corpulence.[↗](../../corpulence/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **correct** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Correct means right, true, or without mistakes.[↗](../../correct/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Correct can mean proper or suitable, like the correct way to behave.[↗](../../correct/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To correct means to find and fix mistakes.[↗](../../correct/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A teacher corrects work by marking what is right and wrong.[↗](../../correct/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* That is the correct answer.[↗](../../correct/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Please correct your spelling mistakes.[↗](../../correct/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher corrected our tests.[↗](../../correct/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Is this the correct way to hold a pencil?[↗](../../correct/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it Tuesday?[↗](../../correct/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She got nine out of ten correct.[↗](../../correct/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Glasses correct poor eyesight.[↗](../../correct/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Now he thought his opinion was evidently correct.[↗](../../correct/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me; (Torah LEV.26.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correct/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Private Hermetic MSS. have alone the correct names and spelling.[↗](../../correct/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../correct/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Moses Butarel and others tell us that they had before them a correct copy of "Sepher Yezirah," where it reads: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../correct/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The words of king Lemuel; the burden wherewith his mother corrected him.[↗](../../correct/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.31.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correct/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · He that instructeth nations, shall not He correct? even He that teacheth man knowledge?[↗](../../correct/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.94.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correct/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · O LORD, correct me, but in measure; not in Thine anger, lest Thou diminish me.[↗](../../correct/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.10.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correct/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **correction** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A correction is a change that makes something right that was wrong.[↗](../../correction/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Correction is the act of putting mistakes right.[↗](../../correction/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (formal) Correction can mean punishment, as in old prisons.[↗](../../correction/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Do your corrections in green pen.[↗](../../correction/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher made a correction to my spelling.[↗](../../correction/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There were three corrections on the board.[↗](../../correction/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Use correction tape to cover the mistake.[↗](../../correction/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The newspaper printed a correction the next day.[↗](../../correction/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She took the correction kindly and tried again.[↗](../../correction/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.[↗](../../correction/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.12.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correction/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A fool despiseth his father's correction; but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.[↗](../../correction/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.15.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correction/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction; (Writings PRO.3.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../correction/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **correctional** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) Correctional describes places and work that deal with punishing people who broke the law and helping them change, such as prisons.[↗](../../correctional/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He works as a correctional officer.[↗](../../correctional/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The correctional facility is outside the town.[↗](../../correctional/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Correctional services help prisoners learn skills.[↗](../../correctional/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The judge sent him to a correctional centre.[↗](../../correctional/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A correctional officer keeps order in the prison.[↗](../../correctional/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The news reported on a new correctional building.[↗](../../correctional/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **correctly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Correctly means in the right way, without mistakes.[↗](../../correctly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Correctly means in a proper or polite way that fits the rules or situation.[↗](../../correctly/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Correctly speaking means strictly speaking, if you want to be exact about what is true.[↗](../../correctly/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She answered all the questions correctly.[↗](../../correctly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Spell your name correctly on the form.[↗](../../correctly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wear your bike helmet correctly, with the strap done up.[↗](../../correctly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · If I remember correctly, the bus comes at noon.[↗](../../correctly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He correctly guessed the number of sweets.[↗](../../correctly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the pencil correctly.[↗](../../correctly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I got 18 out of 20 correctly, so I made 2 mistakes.[↗](../../correctly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Correctly speaking, you are but a youngster in the world.[↗](../../correctly/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **correctness** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Correctness is the quality of being right or true, with no mistakes.[↗](../../correctness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Correctness is also behaving in the proper, polite and accepted way.[↗](../../correctness/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Political correctness» is the idea of avoiding words and actions that might be unfair or hurtful to groups of people; some people praise it and others mock it.[↗](../../correctness/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The teacher checked the correctness of each sum.[↗](../../correctness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Please check the correctness of your spelling before you hand it in.[↗](../../correctness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The computer tested the correctness of the program.[↗](../../correctness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad always dressed with great correctness.[↗](../../correctness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We argued about the correctness of the answer to question five.[↗](../../correctness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The judge doubted the correctness of the witness's story.[↗](../../correctness/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people say political correctness has gone too far, and others say it is just being kind.[↗](../../correctness/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **correlated** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (adjective) When two things are correlated, they tend to change together: when one goes up, the other usually goes up (or down) too: «Height and shoe size are correlated».[↗](../../correlated/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb, past) Compared or connected two things to see how they match: «The scientist correlated the temperature with ice-cream sales».[↗](../../correlated/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Hours of practice and test scores were correlated.[↗](../../correlated/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ice-cream sales and sunny days are positively correlated.[↗](../../correlated/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Temperature and the number of people wearing coats are negatively correlated.[↗](../../correlated/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The researchers correlated the children's sleep with their marks.[↗](../../correlated/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Just because two things are correlated does not mean one causes the other.[↗](../../correlated/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our scatter graph showed that arm span and height are strongly correlated.[↗](../../correlated/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **correlation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A connection or relationship between two things, where they change together.[↗](../../correlation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (maths, science) A measure of how closely two sets of numbers go up or down together, as shown on a scatter graph.[↗](../../correlation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There is a positive correlation between height and shoe size.[↗](../../correlation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The graph shows a negative correlation: as temperature rises, coat sales fall.[↗](../../correlation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There was no correlation between hair colour and test scores.[↗](../../correlation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Correlation does not mean one thing causes the other.[↗](../../correlation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists found a correlation between exercise and sleep.[↗](../../correlation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **correspond** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To match or be the same as something, or to fit together: «The numbers correspond to the pictures.».[↗](../../correspond/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To be like or equal to something else in another system: «The British «year 6» roughly corresponds to the American «fifth grade».».[↗](../../correspond/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To write letters or emails to someone over time.[↗](../../correspond/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Each letter corresponds to a number in this code.[↗](../../correspond/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Your answer does not correspond with what the question asked.[↗](../../correspond/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dots on the map correspond to the schools in our town.[↗](../../correspond/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I correspond with a pen pal in New Zealand.[↗](../../correspond/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The two girls corresponded for many years.[↗](../../correspond/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In similar triangles, the angles that correspond are equal.[↗](../../correspond/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The tally marks should correspond to the numbers in the chart.[↗](../../correspond/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Now it is remarkable how accurately all this corresponds to the Dark Tower of “Childe Rowland,” allowing for a little idealisation on the part of the narrator.[↗](../../correspond/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Hebrew language and its characters correspond mostly with the things they designate, and thus holy thoughts, Hebrew language (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../correspond/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · In IHV note that Yod corresponds to the Father ; Heh to Binah, the Supernal Mother ; and Vau to the Microprosopus — Son .[↗](../../correspond/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../correspond/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Soul; the word is NPSh, which is commonly translated soul, meaning the living personality of man, animal or existing thing : it corresponds almost to the Theosophic Prana plus the stimulus of Kama.[↗](../../correspond/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../correspond/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **correspondence** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Correspondence is letters, emails or messages sent between people.[↗](../../correspondence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "she reads her correspondence every morning".[↗](../../correspondence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Correspondence is writing to each other over time.[↗](../../correspondence/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "we kept up a correspondence for years".[↗](../../correspondence/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A correspondence is a match or close link between two things.[↗](../../correspondence/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a correspondence between the two lists".[↗](../../correspondence/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandpa keeps all his correspondence in a box.[↗](../../correspondence/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The two friends kept up a correspondence while one lived in Canada.[↗](../../correspondence/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Match each child to one chair: that is one-to-one correspondence.[↗](../../correspondence/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · There is a close correspondence between the two maps.[↗](../../correspondence/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The office deals with the head teacher's correspondence.[↗](../../correspondence/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She did a correspondence course by post.[↗](../../correspondence/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "It is an unheard-of thing," said Noureddin, "that a fisherman should be in correspondence with a king."[↗](../../correspondence/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **correspondent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A reporter who sends news to a newspaper, radio or TV station from a particular place or about a particular subject, such as a war correspondent or a sports correspondent.[↗](../../correspondent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person who writes letters to someone else regularly; two people who write to each other are correspondents.[↗](../../correspondent/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (formal) A person or firm that deals with another, especially a bank that does business for another bank in a different country.[↗](../../correspondent/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The news correspondent stood in the rain and told us about the flood.[↗](../../correspondent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school has a correspondent who writes for the local paper about sports day.[↗](../../correspondent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My nan and her old school friend have been correspondents for a very long time.[↗](../../correspondent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The BBC sent a correspondent to report on the bushfires.[↗](../../correspondent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A sports correspondent wrote about the big match on the back page.[↗](../../correspondent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The two pen pals were faithful correspondents and wrote every month.[↗](../../correspondent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The foreign correspondent spoke three languages.[↗](../../correspondent/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) The bank used a correspondent in another country to send the money.[↗](../../correspondent/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) … [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/76/) **77** 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