All 11 Uses of

correspond

in

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

All he needed to do was pay back the money that was lost when Minos went under, and he could also show that he had lost a corresponding amount of his own money.
Chpt 1.1 *

corresponding = proportional

He painted a picture of the outcry that would result if a legal correspondent began uncritically reproducing the prosecutor's case as gospel in a murder trial, without consulting the defence arguments or interviewing the victim's family before forming an opinion of what was likely or unlikely.
Chpt 1.5 *

correspondent = reporter

He died in 1974, and it wasn't until he went through his brother's correspondence that he learned that in the fifties Greger had joined the politically ineffectual but totally crackpot sect called the Nordic National Party.
Chpt 2.9

correspondence = written letters

The message was clear: in the future you will not be fighting with a magazine with a staff of six and an annual budget corresponding to the cost of a luncheon meeting of the Wennerström Group.
Chpt 2.14

corresponding = matching (similar)

It was manufactured a year ago, but he seems to have transferred all his old correspondence and everything else on to the hard drive instead of storing it on CDs.
Chpt 4.28

correspondence = letters or messages

It took her six minutes to crack the code and download his correspondence from the past year.
Chpt 4.28

My dear Mikael—you have ten years of correspondence, emails, agreements, travel arrangements, and God knows what on that hard drive.
Chpt 4.28 *

They had conferred by telephone a couple of times each week, and she had kept him updated on Wennerström's correspondence and other activities.
Chpt 4.29

He compared the efforts of financial journalists with the way crime reporters or foreign correspondents worked.†
Chpt 1.5

Definitions:

(1) (correspond as in: corresponding time period)
connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched

(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)
(2) (correspond as in: corresponding by email)
communicate -- typically by writing letters or email

A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
(3) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course)
done from afar

For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.

This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.
(4) (correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper)
a reporter or other representative -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)