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newsagent

American  
[nooz-ay-juhnt, nyooz-] / ˈnuzˌeɪ dʒənt, ˈnjuz- /

noun

Chiefly British.
  • newsagents
    plural
  1. newsdealer.


newsagent British  
/ ˈnjuːzˌeɪdʒənt /

noun

  1. a shopkeeper who sells newspapers, stationery, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of newsagent

First recorded in 1850–55; news + agent


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Michael O'Brien was one of three men wrongly convicted of the 1987 murder of Cardiff newsagent Philip Saunders.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Michael O'Brien was one of three men wrongly convicted of the 1987 killing of Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

On 8 September he was recorded in a newsagent reading articles about his alleged escape in the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, before buying the former paper.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

Amit Patel, who works in a newsagent opposite Marylebone Train Station said their trade on a Friday had trailed off since the pandemic.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2024

They followed him out of the school and up the road, past the corner newsagent, and across the railway bridge.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Claire Bailey, who runs the Sun newsagents in Shepshed, Leicestershire, was told in April she had six to nine months to live.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Amjid Hafiz owns Latte Caffe on Abbeydale Road in Sheffield, which has served as a newsagents and sweet shop since it was first built as a toilet.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

The exterior was used for the 1980s-set ITV underwear drama Brief Encounter, while in 2022 the Disney TV series of Sheffield-based The Full Monty used the store as a newsagents.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

But the books and comics were not initially collected by libraries as they were distributed via newsagents rather than bookshops and deemed to be ephemeral.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023

We count it.We take it to the newsagents.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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