Definitions
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- noun A
retail business sellingnewspapers ,magazines , andstationery ; astationer . - noun The
proprietor of such a business.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who sells newspapers
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Examples
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A newsagent is the manager, often the owner of a news agency.
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A newsagent is the manager, often the owner of a news agency.
WN.com - Articles related to Usage of credit cards on the rise again 2010
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Lewis Cooke, who runs a newsagent which is four miles away in Skipton, continued to deliver newspapers and tinned items on to the porch of the shop so residents could come and collect their goods.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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One of the QCs told me that, after my release, he'd gone into his local newsagent, and someone in the queue saw the headline in the paper and said: 'Wow!
Christopher Jefferies: 'It was like having your personality left in ruins' 2011
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Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller 2009
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That would be like tabloid readers demanding that a newsagent stops selling broadsheets.
How do you define an under-utilised graduate? Jonathan 2009
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You walk into a newsagent and instead of women porn magazines you see men porn magazines.
If you were a woman and I was man… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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A reader recalls her personal and professional relationship with the paper, from her days working a Saturday job in the local newsagent to her career in the TV industry
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Three Asian men in their 40s, guarding a newsagent, discussed whether they should also take advantage of the apparent suspension of law.
Who are the rioters? Young men from poor areas ... but that's not the full story 2011
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Yesterday, the woman behind the counter at a newsagent in Milton Keynes called me "my darling" six times while selling me a newspaper.
The end of the Cameron and Clegg affair? | Alexander Chancellor 2011
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