newsagent
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
newsagent (plural newsagents)
- A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
- The proprietor of such a business.
- 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
- However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
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retail business
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person
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