news agency

Questions about news agency

What does news agency mean?

news agency means "an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically".

What is another word for news agency?

Close synonyms include press agency, wire service, press association, news organization, news organisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is news agency a common word?

news agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.