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The Fourth Estate Definition


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The Fourth Estate
noun
    1. The Press regarded as a political force.
Etymology: Coined in 1828 by Macaulay, who described the gallery of the house of Commons in which the reporters sit as ‘the fourth estate of the realm'; see estate noun 5.



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