noun
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a woman who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor
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the female owner or proprietor of a newspaper
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a woman who sells newspapers in the street
Gender
See -woman.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of newspaperwoman
Example Sentences
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She was the highest-paid newspaperwoman in the Hearst organization, but the overwork came at a cost.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022
But the first Black woman to run for vice president in the nation’s history was trailblazing newspaperwoman Charlotta Spears Bass.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2020
Instead, her fluency in Japanese and background as a newspaperwoman made her ideal for “morale operations” in Asia, also known as “black” propaganda — spreading authentic-sounding misinformation designed to demoralize and confuse the enemy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2015
The nosey newspaperwoman was something of a self-reflection.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2010
She was a newspaperwoman, and the strange story in which she was involved appealed to her imagination, yet its appeal was far more effective in a purely personal way.
From The Strange Case of Cavendish by Parrish, Randall
Bob, who was taken from us far too young, taught a generation of newspapermen and newspaperwomen how to take our jobs seriously without taking ourselves seriously – to be skeptics without becoming cynics.
From Fox News ● Nov. 16, 2018
It is a book calculated to make old men sigh, young men dreamy, newspaperwomen reminiscent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the newspaperwomen who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt were excluded from the conference, it remained for Financier Bernard Mamies Baruch, who usually has small patience for easy-going relief handouts, to report what took place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toward the end of the week, she invited newspaperwomen to pay her a last visit at the White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
I remember a visit which three American newspaperwomen paid to him one day at his headquarters.
From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Broun, Heywood
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