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newswoman

[ nooz-woom-uhn, nyooz- ]
/ ˈnuzˌwʊm ən, ˈnyuz- /
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noun, plural news·wom·en.

a woman employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau.
a woman who reports the news on radio or television.
a woman who sells or distributes newspapers, periodicals, etc.

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Origin of newswoman

First recorded in 1925–30; news + -woman

usage note for newswoman

See -woman.

Words nearby newswoman

New Style, newsvendor, New Sweden, newsweekly, newswire, newswoman, newsworthy, newswriting, newsy, newt, New Test.
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Words related to newswoman

anchor, announcer, columnist, correspondent, cub, foreign correspondent, interviewer, journalist, newscaster, war correspondent, writer, editor, copy editor, newshound, stringer

Example sentences from the Web for newswoman

  • He stopped to buy the paper that the boy on a bicycle was just giving our newswoman.

    Paris Vistas|Helen Davenport Gibbons

  • It had been an unfortunate occurrence, but surely it would be easy enough to find some one more reasonable than the old newswoman.

    Betty's Happy Year|Carolyn Wells

British Dictionary definitions for newswoman

newswoman
/ (ˈnjuːzˌwʊmən) /

noun plural -women

informal a female newsreader or reporterGender-neutral forms: newsreader, reporter
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
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