recorder

noun

Definition of recordernext
as in reporter

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Recent Examples of recorder After that, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, which had been monitoring Didulo for months, obtained a search warrant for her home, computer, smartphones, and digital video recorder. — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026 In their grandmother’s home in a small town on the Malabar coast, an audio-recorder draws Meen into a world of traces. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 The vehicle’s event data recorder showed speeds exceeding 75 mph, and a California Highway Patrol investigation concluded that excessive speed and driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs caused the crash. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026 The Magnetophon was a high-fidelity reel-to-reel magnetic tape recorder. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for recorder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recorder
  1. reporter
  2. bookkeeper
  3. archivist
  4. secretary
  5. transcriptionist
  6. register
Noun
  • The referendum campaign has fueled debate about Iceland’s place in the world, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told reporters after casting her ballot in ​the capital on Saturday.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Canales told reporters postgame that Evans’ absence was related to a neck injury.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • According to Xero, this feature will save accountants/bookkeepers 50 percent of their time devoted to reconciliation.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Tami Day served nearly 27 years as a bookkeeper in Oldham County Schools.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of bookkeeper
Noun
  • Publicly accessible early versions of some games released before this SteamPipe transition had been considered lost content by archivists, no longer accessible from Valve itself and living on only as local downloads on aging machines.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Kemerer became the unofficial archivist of Los Angeles’s king of house moving, George Kress, after buying Kress’s former home.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of archivist
Noun
  • Other jobs on this list include occupations that are largely administrative and deal with handling data or customer service, such as office clerks, secretaries, administrative assistants, customer service reps and tellers.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • So far, even the secretary’s Make America Healthy Again movement — which emphasizes poor diet as a main driver of chronic disease — has done little to assuage dietitians’ deeply rooted troubles.
    — Lauren Chan, STAT, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of secretary
Noun
  • After starting a family, David Winans worked various nonmusical jobs, including as a car salesman and barber, and Delores Winans was a typist and medical transcriptionist.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The key role of a transcriptionist who pieces together Marcelo’s story in the present day, for example, went to an actor who simply wowed Domingues and Filho with her audition.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Definition of transcriptionist
Noun
  • Dash, 2026, the forty-seven-minute, two-channel essay-film at the project’s core, is filled with quiet, almost meditative scenes of machines tilling the land that initially conjure a faux-pastoral aesthetic register.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The ship claimed Cameroonian registry, but Cameroon suspended its international register on February 6 after discovering its flag was being issued through two fraudulent websites.
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of register

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“Recorder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recorder. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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