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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

Newsdealers are no longer permitted to return unsold papers and it is often practically impossible to buy a morning paper unless one has a standing order with a newsdealer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In 1907 Moses Annenberg went to Milwaukee to distribute all the Chicago newspapers then in existence, branched out as a newsdealer all over the U. S. In 1917 he became publisher of the Wisconsin News.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Mr. Ingram, publisher of the "Illustrated London News," began life as a newsdealer at Nottingham, England, he walked ten miles to deliver a single paper rather than disappoint a customer.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

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