单词 | news agency |
释义 | news agencyn. 1. Now usually in form newsagency. A business that sells newspapers and periodicals. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods jeweller's shop1632 ironmongery1648 ironmonger1673 jeweller1675 news shop1688 print shop1689 Indian house1692 coal shed1718 pamphlet shop1721 lormery1725 drugstore1771 hardware store1777 junk store1777 chandler-shop1782 junk shop1790 music store1794 pot shop1794 finding store1822 marine store1837 picture house1838 paint shop1847 news agency1852 chemist1856 Army and Navy1878 cyclery1886 jumble-shop1893 pig shop1896 Manchester department1905 lot1909 craft shop1911 garden centre1912 pet shop1927 sex shop1949 video store1949 quincaillerie1951 home centre1955 Army-Navy1965 cookshop1967 sound shop1972 bucket-shop1973 1852 A. Jones Hist. Sketch Electric Telegr. xiv. 139 We resigned the general news agency, after having devoted from five to six years of unremitted health-wearing toil to the business. 1860 E. Everett Mount Vernon Papers liii. 484 The principal distribution of the paper takes place at the news agency of Messrs. Ross & Tousey in Nassau Street. 1890 Mercury (Tasmania) 27 Dec. A news agency..was burglared yesterday morning. 1962 T. M. Hunt & A. C. Toal Princ. Profitable Retailing 29 Many hundreds of Australian retailers conduct what is called a ‘mixed’ business..centred around a milk bar and/or delicatessen and/or sub-newsagency. 1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) iii. 143 The victims..stopped as usual at the newsagency shortly before 8 am to collect their papers. 2. An organization that collects news items and distributes them to subscribing newspapers, broadcasters, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > news agency press agency1859 news service1870 news agency1873 newswire1941 wire service1941 1873 F. Hudson Journalism in U.S. 521 News agencies..branched out and extended into colossal news companies as a..necessity of the age. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XX. 405/2 The demand for such reporting had led, on the passing of the telegraphs into the hands of the state, to the formation of news agencies which undertook to supply the provincial newspapers. 1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity iii. ii. 291 A statement to an international news agency. 1974 J. Banning How I fooled World iv. 23 One difference..between working for a newspaper and working for a news agency was that a news agency correspondent is much more vulnerable. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Apr. 46/1 The Soviet news agency TASS denied this violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852 |
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