newspaperman

[ nooz-pey-per-man, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos- ]
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noun,plural news·pa·per·men.
  1. a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.

  2. the owner or operator of a newspaper or news service.

Origin of newspaperman

1
First recorded in 1800–10; newspaper + -man

usage note For newspaperman

See -man.

Words Nearby newspaperman

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How to use newspaperman in a sentence

  • The widow of a wealthy Pittsburgh newspaperman, she was now active in Pennsylvania suffrage organizations.

    Susan B. Anthony | Alma Lutz
  • I know all about deadlines; I was a newspaperman when you were vainly suckling canine dugs.

  • Swanson didn't look like the general conception of a small-town newspaperman.

    The Cuckoo Clock | Wesley Barefoot
  • Steele, a former newspaperman, learned from his association with that other arch-patriot, Jung.

    Secret Armies | John L. Spivak
  • But we did not suppose it possible to catch an American newspaperman with such a bare hook as that.

British Dictionary definitions for newspaperman

newspaperman

/ (ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpəˌmæn) /


nounplural -men
  1. a man who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor

  2. the male owner or proprietor of a newspaper

  1. a man who sells newspapers in the street

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