news report

1. 1.

   a short account of the news

   “the report of his speech”

   “the story was on the 11 o'clock news”

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

   Synonymsreportstoryaccountwrite up

   Broadernews

   Narrowernewsletterbulletindispatchurban legendexclusive

Questions about news report

What does news report mean?

news report means "a short account of the news".

What is another word for news report?

Close synonyms include report, story, account, write up. 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 report a common word?

news report 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.