newsagent

English

Etymology

From news +‎ agent.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

newsagent (plural newsagents)

1. A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
   • 1990 February 11, Kendall Lovett, “Gay Newspapers Banned”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 2:

     The papers are freely available in Sydney bookshops and newsagents.

2. 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!

Translations

retail business

Catalan: estanc m Chinese: Mandarin: 報刊亭 / 报刊亭 (zh) (bàokāntíng), 報攤 / 报摊 (zh) (bàotān) Dutch: kiosk (nl) Finnish: paperikauppa (fi) French: kiosque à journaux (fr) m German: Zeitungskiosk (de) m Hungarian: újságos (hu), újságosbódé (hu) Japanese: 新聞販売店 (しんぶんはんばいてん, shinbun hanbaiten) Korean: 신문 가판대(新聞街販臺) (sinmun gapandae) Polish: kiosk z gazetami m Portuguese: banca de jornal (pt) f Romanian: chioșc de ziare n, magazin de ziare n Russian: газе́тный кио́ск m (gazétnyj kiósk) Spanish: estanco (es) m Turkish: gazete bayii, gazeteci (tr)

person

Catalan: estanquer (ca) m Finnish: paperikauppias (fi) French: marchand de journaux m German: Zeitungsverkäufer (de) m, Zeitungshändler (de) m Hungarian: újságárus (hu) Italian: giornalaio (it) m, edicolante (it) m Ottoman Turkish: غزته‌جی (gazetacı) Polish: kioskarz (pl) m, kioskarka (pl) f Romanian: vânzător de ziare m Russian: газе́тный киоскёр m (gazétnyj kioskjór), продаве́ц перио́дики m (prodavéc periódiki)

See also

• news agency