stringer
stri nger
- n a member of a squad on a team
a first stringer
a second stringer - n a worker who strings
a stringer of beads - n brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
- n a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
- Yet for the stringer, a particular difficulty lies in reconciling the dual role of student and journalist.
- The name stringer derives from the old and long-abandoned practice of paying freelance reporters according to the length of their pasted-together columns, or strings, of clippings.
- Some stringer correspondents eventually become regular PTI staff members.