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   headline

   /ˈhɛdlʌɪn/

   noun

   • 1. a heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine: "a front-page headline"
   • ▪ the most important items of news in a newspaper or a broadcast news bulletin: "issues that are never long out of the headlines"

   adjective

   • 1. denoting a particularly notable or important piece of news: "air accidents make headline news whereas car accidents are seldom publicized"
   • 2. denoting or relating to the star performer or group at a concert, typically appearing as the last act on the bill: "they were one of the headline acts at the festival in Hyde Park"
   • 3. denoting or relating to a figure for unemployment based on the unadjusted total number of people out of work, as a percentage of the population: "the headline unemployment rate has surprised the markets by dropping slightly"
   • ▪ denoting or relating to a rate of inflation based on the consumer price index and reflecting all changes to the cost of living that an economy may undergo: "the country's headline inflation had slowed down to 6.87 per cent"

   verb

   • 1. provide with a headline: "a feature that was headlined ‘Invest in your Future’"
   • 2. appear as the star performer at (a concert): "Nirvana headlined the 1992 Reading Festival"

   Word Origin Middle English (in sense ‘rope used to secure a sail to a yard’): from head + line1. The main modern sense dates from the late 18th century.

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