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newsagent

/nooz-ey-juhnt, nyooz-/US // ˈnuzˌeɪ dʒənt, ˈnyuz- //UK // (ˈnjuːzˌeɪdʒənt) //

报摊,报亭,报刊亭,报社

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : newsdealer.

Examples

  • A newsagent further down on Nathan Road  told The Daily Beast that he recognized a number of retired cops in the cavalry charge.

  • As an adult she was a “newsagent reader,” leafing through copies at newsstands before buying the more refined Sunday Telegraph.

  • He inherited from his father a newsagent's business, to which he steadily adhered up to his death, "in his 73rd year."

  • The newsagent's clerk, when arranging his wares that morning, had had what he felt to be an unusually bright idea.

  • So, with just a little grain of hope, they retraced their steps to the post office, which was also a stationer's and newsagent's.

  • Farley, our newsagent and tobacconist, held me when I went in for an ounce of the usual mild.

  • He then settled in Nottingham, and commenced business as a printer, bookseller, and newsagent.