- the date and place of writing or issue, as given in a line in a letter, a newspaper, a dispatch, etc.
- international date line
transitive verb
-·lined·, -·lin·ing to furnish with a dateline
dateline
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dateline
noun
A phrase at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine article that gives the date and place of its origin.
Related Forms:
- date′line′
verb
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Noun
(plural datelines)
- (journalism) A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the date and place of origin.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present datelines, present participle datelining, simple past and past participle datelined)
- To attach a dateline to a particular document
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