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back-announce en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of back announce.
    • We had stopped at a coastal town to find a location to at least record an introduction and a back-announce for my story, when around 50 emergency vehicles went screaming past us. 2011, Mike McRoberts, Beyond the Firing Line:
    • The back-announce told us we had just heard the Passacaglia. 2014, Donald Vroon, Classical Music in a Changing Culture:
    • He also gave the time at three out of five back-announces. 1987, Michael C. Keith, Radio Programming: Consultancy and Formatics, page 162:

Forms

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back-announces Number=Plur lexicographic

back-announce en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To briefly identify the music or story that has just aired.
    • It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject. 1978, Barrie Redfern, Local radio, page 78:
    • Two further examples will illustrate the functions of cue material – that is, to obtain the listener's interest, provide context, explain background noise, clarify technicalities and to 'back-announce'. 2005, Robert McLeish, Radio Production, page 112:
    • Z100, the Top-40 station in freestyle epicenter New Yor City, would plug many holes in its playlists with freestyle tracks, usually neglecting to back-announce them so that to the non-clubgoer, the songs would only be identifiable by lyrics or synth sounds. 2012, Maura Johnston, The Season Came To An End:
    • You back-announce the music just played, making a few appropriate comments about the music or the performers. 1991, Stuart Wallace Hyde, Television and radio announcing, page 335:

Forms

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back-announced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
back-announced Tense=Past lexicographic
back-announces Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
back-announcing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic