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newsagent

American  
[nooz-ey-juhnt, nyooz-] / ˈnuzˌeɪ dʒənt, ˈnyuz- /

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. newsdealer.


newsagent British  
/ ˈnjuːzˌdiːlə, 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

Etymology

Origin of newsagent

First recorded in 1850–55; news + agent

Example Sentences

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"I went into the newsagent to buy a can of Coke and a Mars bar or something and the papers were just covered," he says.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2025

He married a British woman and moved to Wallasey to run his own business, a newsagent called Nelson's News.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

As the magazine returns to its print origins the strategy is not about producing hundreds of thousands of copies that will be available in every newsagent in the UK.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023

Michael O'Brien said more than £37,000 was deduced from his award for "food and water" after he was one of three men wrongly convicted of killing Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders in 1987.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2023

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