newsagent
[nooz-ey-juh nt, nyooz-]
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Origin of newsagent
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Examples from the Web for newsagent
Contemporary Examples
A newsagent further down on Nathan Road told The Daily Beast that he recognized a number of retired cops in the cavalry charge.
As an adult she was a “newsagent reader,” leafing through copies at newsstands before buying the more refined Sunday Telegraph.
Historical Examples
I told a horrid fib and said the newsagent had forgotten to leave it.'
The ExplorerW. Somerset Maugham
He then settled in Nottingham, and commenced business as a printer, bookseller, and newsagent.
The Pictorial PressMason Jackson
The newsagent's clerk, when arranging his wares that morning, had had what he felt to be an unusually bright idea.
Jane OglanderMarie Belloc Lowndes
So, with just a little grain of hope, they retraced their steps to the post office, which was also a stationer's and newsagent's.
A Popular SchoolgirlAngela Brazil
Farley, our newsagent and tobacconist, held me when I went in for an ounce of the usual mild.
newsagent
US newsdealer (ˈnjuːzˌdiːlə)
- a shopkeeper who sells newspapers, stationery, etc
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