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newsdealer

American  
[nooz-dee-ler, nyooz-] / ˈnuzˌdi lər, ˈnjuz- /

noun

  1. a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.


Etymology

Origin of newsdealer

First recorded in 1860–65; news + dealer

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Selis Manor, a 205-unit apartment building at 135 W. 23rd Street, was built by Irving M. Selis, a blind newsdealer, and opened in 1980.

From New York Times Sep. 18, 2016

H. P. Re, 75, newsdealer, whose great vexation was explaining to doubters that his short name was authentic;* of heat; in Coldwater, Mich. Died.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it."

From Time Magazine Archive

A disgruntled newsdealer, two strangers and a posse made their way to a farmhouse near Newton, N. J. one evening last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the crustacean intention only a moist thumb remained, which served Mr. Newman in good stead in the delivery of the Boston evening papers, for he was incidentally newsdealer.

From An Old Town By the Sea by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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