wire service

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnews agencypress agencypress associationnews organizationnews organisation

   Broaderagency

   Narrowersyndicate

Questions about wire service

What does wire service mean?

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

What is another word for wire service?

Close synonyms include news agency, press agency, 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 wire service a common word?

wire service 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.