readership

[ ree-der-ship ]

/ ˈri dərˌʃɪp /

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noun

the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.

the duty, status, or profession of a reader.

(especially in British universities) the position of instructor or lecturer.

the state or quality of being a reader: appealing to a higher level of readership.

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Origin of readership

First recorded in 1710–20; reader + -ship

Words nearby readership

read a lecture, read between the lines, readdress, Reade, reader, readership, readies, readily, read in, readiness, reading

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How to use readership in a sentence

Online publications often have much higher readerships than traditional media outlets, and as such digital public relations support increased visibility of your brand.
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We’re a nonprofit, reliant primarily on donations instead of ad revenue, so we don’t chase pageviews and readership.
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Protocol president Tammy Wincup would not disclose the publication’s financials from the end of its first year, but said that the publication’s total readership for 2020 consisted of more than 7 million uniques viewers.
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The Collective’s demographics are similar to that of the company’s overall readership.
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That then enabled her team to act on those behaviors and reach record readership.
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Yet without money, without access, and without readership, that history McMillan seems intent on making will be absent.
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Its readership expands in times when more of us need its particular brand of salve.
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It has existed, over its long history, in both expanded and contracted states in terms of its readership.
What the Forward Prize Doesn’t Recognize About Poets|Mandy Kahn|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its contracted readership has not discouraged a larger group, maybe more than ever before, from writing it.
What the Forward Prize Doesn’t Recognize About Poets|Mandy Kahn|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And as its influence and readership expands, the paper is feeling the wrath of Hollywood mega-stars.
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In 1876 he returned to Oxford, where from 1883 to 1893 he held the university readership in Latin.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3|Various
In the present day the readership is purely honorary and without duties.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 5|Various
After lecturing at the University of Toulouse he appeared in Paris in 1581, where he held an extraordinary readership.
The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe|Dorothy Stimson
The office of readership to this society had been offered to Cowper, but was declined by him.
The Works of William Cowper|William Cowper
It seemed that a heretofore unsuspected contingent of her growing readership was substantially obese.
Makers|Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for readership

readership

/ (ˈriːdəʃɪp) /

noun

all the readers collectively of a particular publication or authora readership of five million; Dickens's readership

mainly British the office, position, or rank of university reader

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