stringer
/ˈstrɪŋər/
noun
- A journalist or photographer who works for a news organization on a part-time or freelance basis, often in a specific location.
- The newspaper hired a local stringer to cover the small-town council meetings.
- As a stringer for the wire service, she filed reports from conflict zones around the world.
- Many young journalists start their careers as stringers before getting a full-time staff position.
- A long, horizontal piece of wood or metal used to support the steps of a staircase or the framework of a structure.
- The deck's stringers were treated with waterproof sealant to prevent rot.
- A broken stringer in the old staircase made the steps feel unstable.
- The carpenter carefully measured and cut each stringer before attaching the stair treads.
- A person who strings items, such as beads, tennis rackets, or musical instruments.
- She worked as a bead stringer, creating beautiful necklaces for a jewelry shop.
- The racket stringer at the tennis club replaced the broken strings in my racquet.
- The guitar stringer carefully wound the new strings around the tuning pegs.
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