newspapern.
/ˈnjuːzpeɪpə/, /ˈnjuːspeɪpə/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpər/ 1. A printed publication, now usually issued daily or weekly, consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, frequently with the addition of advertisements, photographs, articles, and correspondence; the organization or office issuing such a publication. Also now: the digital version of such a newspaper, made available online.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun]
intelligencer1598
courant1621
coranto1624
paper1642
mercury1643
newsletter1665
newspaper1667
slip1688
raga1734
news1738
gazetteer1742
sheet1754
news sheet1841
spread1848
linen-draper1857
newsprint1897
blat1932
linen1955
mimeo newspaper1973
1667 Earl of Arlington Let. to W. Temple 18 Oct. (1701) 187 I must refer you to our News Papers for a further account of the Proceedings of the Parliament.
1670 in Westm. Gaz. (1900) 12 Sept. 2/3 I wanted ye newes paper for Monday last past.
1688 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 130 Any foreign or domestic Newspapers besides the printed Gazette.
1730 Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 185 The newspapers of last February mentioned Dr. Clayton's being made bishop.
1789 Bath Jrnl. 27 July (advt.) The Act inflicts a penalty of Ten Pounds on persons letting out News-papers to read for hire.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. i. 14 To throw down among the crowd the newspaper containing the advertisements.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic x. 346 The ordinary dialect of the market, the parlor, and the newspaper.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 6 He had asked for..an evening newspaper.
1986 Z. Tomin Stalin's Shoe v. 83 He..preferred to follow developments via newspapers.
1998 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 15 Mar. Increasingly, online newspapers and ‘webzines’ have begun charging.
2001 National Post (Canada) 1 May a2/3 Officials..are publicly apologizing for an article in the student newspaper that condemned the Islamic faith.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 20 Aug. 2 Telegraph Media Group has become the first media company in Britain to adopt innovative technology that enables you to interact with your newspaper in an exciting new way.
2. The paper of which a newspaper is made; (in Printing) the low-quality paper on which newspapers are printed, newsprint.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > types of printing paper
newspaper1756
tissue1780
surface paper1851
pulp paper1863
India paper1875
onion skin1879
news1887
bâtonné1892
Bible paper1926
1756 W. Weyman Let. 26 Jan. in B. Frankling Papers (1963) VI. 375 I should..take it as a particular Favour you would put 18 or 20 Reams of News Paper on board the Boats.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xvi. 105 A bit of old newspaper, that was wrapped round a parcel of linen.
1889 G. Gissing Nether World I. i. 15 The hand-maiden was on her knees near the fire, scrubbing very hard at the pan with successive pieces of newspaper.
1936 H. Read Surrealism 62 The invention of the collage by Picasso or Braque—the work of art made of any old pieces of string or newspaper.
1957 H. E. Jackson & M. A. Cleverdon Printing iii. 139/2 Clean unprinted newspaper..makes good slip sheets.
1991 Decanter Aug. 62/1 Wrap the fish first in greaseproof paper, then in half a dozen separate layers of wet newspaper.
3. Criminals' slang. A sentence of thirty days in prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > thirty days
newspaper1926
1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 11/2 Newspaper, crook's term for thirty days in jail.
1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 134 Newspaper, a thirty days' gaol sentence.
1949 E. Partridge Dict. Underworld 467/2 Newspaper, a thirty-days jail sentence... The time it takes an illiterate to read one.
Compounds
C1. † newspaper chase n. [ < chase n.2 2] Obsolete† newspaper erudition n. Obsolete
newspaper account n.
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1788 T. Jefferson Let. 9 Aug. in Papers (1956) XIII. 486 I considered the newspaper accounts of hailstones of 10. pounds weight as exaggerations.
1851 D. B. Woods Sixteen Months at Gold Diggings 199 Divesting the newspaper accounts from California of certain expressions bordering rather too much upon the hyperbolic order.
2000 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. a1/3 [They were] citing damaging newspaper accounts about each other's alleged misdeeds.
newspaper advertisement n.
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1822 J. K. Paulding Sketch Old Eng. xiii. 74 Most of the superiority of this country in religion will be found to originate in newspaper advertisements and missionary magazines, speeches in parliament, and declarations.
1936 Discovery Dec. 384/2 It was not until February, 1626, that the first newspaper advertisement appeared.
1992 Independent 26 Sept. 33/4 One common method is promotions, often centred round one-page newspaper advertisements.
newspaper advertising n.
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1850 Hunt's Mech. Mag. 23 580 Mr. V. B. Palmer keeps what he terms the ‘American Newspaper Advertising Agency’.
1936 Discovery Dec. 384/2 The next step was newspaper advertising.
1986 N. King Big Sales from Small Spaces ii. 49 Judged from the standpoint of the cost of getting your advertising message across..magazine advertising is superior to newspaper advertising.
newspaper agent n.
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1781 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 24 Mar. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 396 It was on this score they fell upon me, both by their private and newspaper agents.
1841 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 4 112 The only existing index to the press of Great Britain is the meagre broad sheet published occasionally by some of the London newspaper agents.
1874 ‘G. Hamilton’ Twelve Miles ii. 30 The religious newspaper-agents bore into your house like worms of the dust.
2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 6 Sept. 3 They go into print and get driven across town at an unearthly hour in the morning to meet a newspaper agent.
newspaper article n.
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1820 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 249 Louis was subjected to the inconvenience of seeing himself occasionally represented in newspaper articles and public documents.
1858 Missouri Democrat 23 Oct. 2/2 I have not seen the letter, and but very few of the newspaper articles on the subject.
1972 D. Wainwright Journalism made Simple iv. 109 A magazine article needs an attractive and if possible startling opening sentence, like a good newspaper article.
newspaper boy n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets
bookmonger1275
stationer1311
bookseller?c1475
bibliopolist1541
book merchant1653
newsboy1728
book hawker1737
bibliopole1775
newsman1775
news-vender1796
newsagent1811
news-vendor1823
newspaper vendor1830
newspaper seller1837
newspaper boy1843
newsgirl1859
newsie1875
paperboy1876
1843 L. M. Child Lett. from N.Y. Index p. vi Letter XIV. Little Newspaper boy. The foreign boys and their mother.
1920 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iv. xiii. 249 He played the part of a newspaper-boy.
2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. xi. 1 I gave the garbage men $50 to split among themselves, the newspaper boy $10.
newspaper business n.
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1800 P. Hoare Indiscretion v. iii. 71 A newspaper business, eh?
1842 E. Sargent What's to be Done? vi. 68 The mighty project..was that of entering into the newspaper business.
1994 Face Jan. 130/2 The problem with being a columnist is that the newspaper business takes your work too seriously.
newspaper carrier n.
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1792 N.-Y. Directory 88 M'Ribbins, Robert, newspaper carrier, 41, Fair-street.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 50 Occupations... Newspaper publishers, 9; Newspaper carriers, 23.
1979 Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. a1/6 Those 2,500 dedicated..newspaper carriers and circulation managers who try their hardest to get The Advertiser to you early each morning.
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > chase
chase1612
rack chase1882
newspaper chase1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 87 Newspaper chases, specially made chases to allow of the pages being laid closely together on the machine.
newspaper clipping n.
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1838 Diplomatic Corr. Texas (Amer. Hist. Assoc.) I. 338 A newspaper clipping containing Van Buren's proclamation of the treaty.
1906 W. Churchill Coniston ii. xi. 374 She had brought a note from her father... Two newspaper clippings fell out of it.
1974 J. Banning How I fooled World iv. 23 Rosemary was putting teleprinter and newspaper clippings into the filing cabinet.
newspaper column n.
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1838 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Sept. 76 One interesting circumstance connected with that occasion, we cannot omit to rescue from the oblivion of the newspaper columns of the day.
1891 Catholic World Oct. 125 There are rumors of approaching trouble; but these in all probability find their raison d'être in helping to fill newspaper columns.
1997 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Aug. 6/4 Loiuse Rice, who became one of the highest regarded graphologists, had a syndicated newspaper column.
newspaper columnist n.
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1937 Sci. Monthly Oct. 348/1 It would seem to be vastly better if the newspaper columnist would only gather his material from the teacher of elementary science.
1990 W. Sheed Ess. in Disguise iii. xviii. 199 Newspaper columnists are good for about three and a half years.
newspaper controversy n.
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1824 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 407 I decline all newspaper controversy.
1894 R. B. Lee Hist. & Descr. Mod. Dogs: Terriers xi. 251 It was about the year 1874 that a newspaper controversy brought the Scottish terrier prominently before the public.
1992 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 58 224 Several pro-mesmerists expressed this view during the newspaper controversy of 1843.
newspaper correspondence n.
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1839 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 355 The authorship was still obstinately attributed to Porson, until declared to be Southey's, in a newspaper correspondence.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iii. 36 And then my newspaper correspondence dropped out.
1995 Amer. Lit. 67 26 Most of that year Clemens spent in San Francisco, living on credit, writing newspaper correspondence which has now mostly disappeared.
newspaper correspondent n.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > correspondent
correspondent1711
newspaper correspondent1849
1849 Littell's Living Age 3 Nov. 212/2 I had been fully employed—news correspondents ever are—up to the last moment.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 5/1 His man-of-destiny characteristics made him an interesting study to the newspaper correspondents.
1970 G. Greene Brighton Rock (new ed.) Introd. p. x I have been a newspaper correspondent as well as a novelist.
newspaper corresponding n.
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1868 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 15 If you can stand an advance, I wish you would, and relieve me of this newspaper corresponding until July.
1997 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 13 Feb. 1 h During my 10 years of newspaper corresponding from Washington, I often heard that federal laws are a lot like sausage: You should never watch either of them being made.
newspaper critic n.
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1781 J. Burgoyne Lord of Manor Pref. p. xx It appeared to one of the newspaper critics, that I had been guilty of a great error in not introducing a scene in the Silvain.
1859 B. Bodichon Let. 28 June in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 103 The book could not have succeeded if it had been known as hers; every newspaper critic would have written against it (!!!).
1992 Christian Sci. Monitor 13 Jan. 10/1 America's greatest living playwright has been decrying..the tyranny of a single newspaper critic who can make or break a show overnight.
newspaper cutting n.
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1856 Notes & Queries 12 Apr. 292/2 I am desirous of mounting a collection of newspaper cuttings.
1988 B. W. Aldiss Forgotten Life ii. 25 He began to sort through some newspaper cuttings which Arthur had amassed while he was away.
newspaper directory n.
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1847 Amer. Whig Rev. 5 649 A newspaper directory has been published in London, from which it appears that there are now in England 555 journals.
1886 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 206 Please take a glance..at your Newspaper Directory and tell me the aggregate number of dailies in the U.S., big cities and all.
2000 Jrnl. Public Policy & Marketing (Nexis) 19 201 Cost data for smaller newspapers not covered by this source were obtained from Bacon's Newspaper Directory.
newspaper editor n.
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?1779 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 333 Newspaper Editor, Pamphlet Indicter.
1785 Daily Universal Reg. 1 Jan. 4/1 A Newspaper Editor..should rest himself on truth and facts.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. i. iii. 151 The majority of newspaper editors made themselves parties to the act, by refusing, from fear, to reprobate it.
1972 C. Wintour Pressures on Press i. 6 It is essential for newspaper editors to be concerned with accuracy.
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1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas Pref. p. viii The display of newspaper erudition to which I have been reduced.
newspaper hack n. [ < hack n.2 4a.]
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1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 13 Aug. A misrepresentation almost unworthy of a news-paper hack.
1844 N. Amer. Rev. July 112 Papers..teeming with personalities of the grossest and most unjustifiable kind,—which have been the ideal models of every profligate newspaper hack in our own country.
1894 E. L. Shuman Steps into Journalism 65 One of the most prolific newspaper hacks in Chicago once remarked that he did not consider a man..a reporter unless he could make good reading out of anything.
1992 Independent 24 Feb. 21/5 The Wig & Pen Club, the famous drinking hole frequented by London's legal eagles and newspaper hacks.
newspaper intelligence n.
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1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 2 News-paper intelligence ought always to be received with some degree of caution.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xiii. 129 I began to picture to myself, as a scrap of newspaper intelligence, my being found dead in a day or two, under some hedge.
2000 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 5 Aug. b14 Bush is a smart guy, different from East Coast newspaper intelligence.
newspaper kiosk n.
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1930 Econ. Jrnl. 40 190 In one case the peasants tore down the newspaper kiosk in their eagerness to get hold of copies of the article.
1989 J. Trollope Village Affair i. 9 A man behind you at a newspaper kiosk rattling the change in his pocket.
newspaper letter n.
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1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 153 Mr. Carey has gratified his exquisite taste and his love of veracity, by the repetition of the stale morsels of slander from the newspaper letter writers of the panic era.
1901 W. James Let. 16 June (1920) II. 148 I professor-ed you because I had read your name printed with that title in a newspaper letter.
1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton xi. 264 Mrs Iris Webb popped round tea-time. Gave us all her support. Had read the newspaper letter.
newspaper office n.
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society > communication > journalism > newspaper offices > [noun]
newspaper office1789
magazinary1825
bureau1863
1789 Trifler No. 32. 411 Frequently have I written over, and carried to a newspaper-office,..paragraphs, which disunited a happy couple.
1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 173 The priest of the nineteenth century..sets up his pulpit in a newspaper office.
1915 R. Fry Let. 27 Aug. (1972) II. 390 Those who encounter the enemy in the newspaper offices are the most bloodthirsty.
1975 A. Fraser Whistler's Lane x. 159 I'll take the bus into Clitheroe..that's where the nearest newspaper office is. I want to look up the files.
newspaper owner n.
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a1863 W. M. Thackeray Early & Late Papers (1867) 253 You have no more right to call for this publicity from the newspaper owner..than to demand from the linen-draper from what wholesale house he got his calico.
1920 Ld. Northcliffe Let. May in W. F. Johnson George Harvey (1929) xxxvii. 383 Just now there is a discussion about the price of paper in which the use of the word ‘publisher’ for ‘newspaper owner’ confuses our people.
1993 Tatler July 89/1 People's attitude to newspaper owners reminds me of their attitude to the monarch; they criticise them for being too lofty, but are disappointed when they behave like ordinary people.
newspaper paragraph n.
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1798 Deb. Congr. U.S. 5 July (1851) 2107 The gentleman from Connecticut..had communicated to the House..a number of newspaper paragraphs.
1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 29 Aug. 269/1 The result was a rumour—speedily formulated in a newspaper paragraph, which went through many States—that a ‘wild man’ had been seen in the locality.
1993 Independent on Sunday 12 Dec. (Review Suppl.) 42/3 Oblivious to gossip, Dempsteresque newspaper paragraphs and the mounting disquiet of his own party.
newspaper phrase n.
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a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 50 I should think, to use the newspaper phrase, the thing merited confirmation.
1833 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 276 We extract the passage containing this account, which, in the newspaper phrase, is somewhat ‘curious if true’, but which merits confirmation.
2000 Independent 21 Oct. 1/2 All human life, as the famous newspaper phrase put it, was there.
newspaper postage n.
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1812 Niles' Reg. 1 361/1 I..admit your publication to be a newspaper and to be rated at Newspaper Postage.
1892 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 209/2 Newspaper postage, 80 cents. A most unreasonable charge.
2000 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 14 Nov. 1 c Newspaper postage will increase from 26.6 cents for a 10-ounce mailing to 28.7 cents.
newspaper press n.
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1829 J. S. Mill Let. 7 Nov. in Wks. (1963) XII. 38 You know in how low a state the newspaper press of this country is.
1895 Catholic World Mar. 858 There is..a very free and lax interpretation on the part of the newspaper press of that precept of St. Paul which describes that certain things should ‘not be so much as named’ among Christians.
1999 Printing World 7 June 2/5 KBA managed to grow its market share in the newspaper press sector, with orders for the year totalling DM1.5 bn.
newspaper printing n.
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1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 651 (heading) Newspaper printing offices.
1887 Harper's Mag. July 176/2 The capabilities of modern newspaper printing are best illustrated in the feat of the New York World.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 243/1 The practice resulted in considerable overmanning in newspaper printing departments.
newspaper proprietor n.
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1850 Harper's Mag. July 181/2 French newspaper proprietors prefer doing their work themselves—they will have no middle men.
1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School II. iii. 46 It was then agreed that the necessary communication should be made by the lawyer to the newspaper proprietors.
1985 P. Howard We thundered Out 8/1 It was the ambition of newspaper proprietors then as now to fill the paper with advertisements.
newspaper publication n.
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1779 Pennsylvania Gaz. 17 Mar. I should far transgress the bounds of a news-paper publication, were I to transcribe the..abusive things which I have seen in the English papers.
1995 Lat. Amer. Res. Rev. 30 152 The increase in the number of newspapers being published in Venezuela runs counter to the worldwide trend of declining newspaper publication.
newspaper reader n.
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society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > reader of specific material
newsreader1759
novel-reader1775
newspaper reader1822
magazine-reader1833
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 23 Mar. (heading) A hint to News-paper readers.
1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel II. xxvi. 94 All over the country by this time, newspaper readers were waking up into excitement about this new tale of love, revenge, and crime.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 842/2 The steadily growing body of potential newspaper readers which increased educational facilities had brought into being.
2000 H. Barker Newspapers, Politics & Eng. Soc. 1695–1855 iii. 46 Although the growth in production was significant, these calculations suggest that newspaper readers comprised a tiny percentage of the total population.
newspaper-reading n. and adj.
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society > communication > reading > [adjective] > reading specific material
book-readingOE
newspaper-reading1782
novel reading1782
society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [adjective] > readership
newspaper-reading1782
1782 J. Byng Diary 23 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 72 My time was employ'd in this journal writing, and old news-paper reading.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 735/1 To the uttermost ends of the newspaper-reading earth.
1985 N. Bagnall Defence of Clichés ii. 29 No such notions bothered, or impinged on, the newspaper-reading public much until the student revolutions of 1968–70.
2010 K. Williams Read All About It! Introd. 1 Surveys have found that newspaper reading has until recently been seen as a ‘status conferring activity’.
newspaper report n.
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1779 Royal Gaz. (N.Y.) 24 Feb. 2/2 I believe the Hon. gentleman takes the character of the noble Lord..from newspaper reports.
1889 Strikes & Lock-outs: Rep. 1888 92 in Parl. Papers (C.5809) LXX. 703 The newspaper report does not state the cause of the dispute.
1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 72 You recall newspaper reports of the find in Grasse two years ago?
2012 D. Spingarn Another Spin 237 News of this reached me in a recent newspaper report. I feel sad and shocked.
newspaper reporter n.
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1776 London Packet 11 Nov. 1/2 If the news-paper reporters do justice to the debates [in the House of Commons], and the speakers found their arguments on facts and conviction, all parties feel a loss in suppressing the immediate publication of such debates.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xlvi. 422 Not being a newspaper reporter, he could not see either of them that night.
2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel i. 8 Newspaper reporters took pictures of the cops taking pictures of us taking pictures of them. It was a circus.
newspaper round n.
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1878 All Year Round 13 July 35/2 Baker's to let... General;..tobacconists, stationery, haberdashery, gingerbeer, ices, and newspaper round.
1910 Employm. of Children Act Comm.: Minutes of Evid. 363/2 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5230) XVIII. 25 They have their regular morning newspaper round, but they sometimes hawk evening newspapers.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 48 I was a bit late, the newspaper-round taking longer than I expected.
1973 J. Wayne Brown Bread & Butter x. 183 Was she eating breakfast, wasn't the newspaper round too much?
2012 O. SLot Cycling for Gold viii. 61 He needed a proper bike, not that old heap that he did the newspaper round on.
newspaper seller n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets
bookmonger1275
stationer1311
bookseller?c1475
bibliopolist1541
book merchant1653
newsboy1728
book hawker1737
bibliopole1775
newsman1775
news-vender1796
newsagent1811
news-vendor1823
newspaper vendor1830
newspaper seller1837
newspaper boy1843
newsgirl1859
newsie1875
paperboy1876
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiv. 372 The newspaper-sellers looked moist and smelt mouldy.
1898 Catholic World Oct. 33 The shouts of the newspaper sellers and of the porters who wheeled along immense piles of trunks.
1974 Country Life 28 Nov. 1656/3 I had a word..with a newspaper seller outside the building.
2014 S. Watson Pope Francis 34 The new pope even took time to call a newspaper seller in Buenos Aires to cancel his subscription.
newspaper selling n.
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1859 6th Ann. Rep. Children's Aid Soc. (N.Y.) 12 The street trades, such as boot-blacking, newspaper-selling, and the like, are not desirable for the permanent benefit of the lad.
1869 J. H. Browne Great Metropolis 426 Their favorite callings are boot-blacking and newspaper-selling, for which they have an original genius.
1903 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 8 409 His crusade of fifty-one nights to prevent newspaper selling..by small children in the streets at night.
2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Mar. 19 Evening Times' vendors have added another talent to their newspaper selling abilities.
newspaper story n.
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1777 S. Johnson Let. 22 Sept. (1992) III. 72 A long newspaper story about Lord Harcourt and his dog.
1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 5 Mar. 278/1 The newspaper-story of a terrific column of magnetic light shooting out from the sun toward the earth.
1993 Toronto Life Sept. 48/2 A newspaper story called it the most heavily travelled route in Canada.
2002 USA Today Nov. 55/2 One reader tells his wife he was going to vote for Atwill, but not now. The newspaper story made up his mind.
newspaper syndicate n.
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1858 Boyd's Co-partnership & Resid. Business Dir. Philadelphia City 60/2 American Newspaper Syndicate, 8th c Locust, A E Wright mgr.
1872 E. Chamberlin Struggle of '72 317 The act..was trumpeted to the country by the newspaper syndicate as an act of outrageous tyranny.
1938 ‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts ix. 127 The latest popularity poll conducted by Paula Paris for the newspaper syndicate.
1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein ii. xiii. 123 These newspaper syndicates can do you a lot of harm if they want to.
2005 Encycl. Americana XXVIII. 703/1 Wheeler sold out to the McClure Syndicate (the oldest U.S. newspaper syndicate, founded in 1884) in 1916.
newspaper train n.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > carrying other specific things
provision train1778
luggage train1846
newspaper train1847
milk train1853
1847 Standard 3 Nov. 4/6 The early morning, or, as it is termed, the ‘newspaper’ train,..now leaves London at 6.15, and arrives in Liverpool at 3.15, and Manchester at 2.40.
1875 Manufacturer & Builder July 168/1 This velocity is at present often equalled, and perhaps even surpassed by the newspaper trains on the Hudson River Railroad.
1988 Daily Tel. 18 May 2/5 British Rail is to end all its newspaper trains from July 10 because it cannot compete against road transport.
2005 B. Mac Aongusa Broken Rails 221 The signalman at Wicklow was unloading a mail van of the 3.25 a.m. Dublin-Wexford newspaper train when an armed gang of six men approached and directed their attention on another van in the train.
newspaper vendor n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets
bookmonger1275
stationer1311
bookseller?c1475
bibliopolist1541
book merchant1653
newsboy1728
book hawker1737
bibliopole1775
newsman1775
news-vender1796
newsagent1811
news-vendor1823
newspaper vendor1830
newspaper seller1837
newspaper boy1843
newsgirl1859
newsie1875
paperboy1876
1830 Standard (Electronic text) 14 Sept. A daring robbery committed in the shop of Mr. Jones, a dealer in toys, and a newspaper-vendor, in Webber-street, Lambeth.
1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) iii. 41 The newspaper-vendors..are indolently reclining at their stalls.
1973 A. Z. Acosta Revolt of Cockroach People v. 48 The newspaper vendor shouts out daily headlines in Spanish.
2013 M. Bunz Silent Revolution iv. 70 Lewis tried to clarify the circumstances of the death of the English newspaper vendor..in the City of London during the 2009 G-20 summit protests.
newspaper wrapper n. [ < wrapper n. 1c.]
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1855 N. P. Willis Out-doors at Idlewild 215 The newspaper-wrapper is Fame's most enduring tablet. No word can die that is once scribbled on brown paper as a Post-office direction.
1873 Brit. Postal Guide 21 Every Head Postmaster is required to keep, for sale to the public..newspaper wrappers bearing an impressed halfpenny stamp, and Post Cards.
1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 61/3 Postal Stationery... There is a newspaper wrapper on watermarked paper, bearing the 1d. stamp design.
2010 Amer. Philatelist Feb. 193/1 (caption) Newspaper wrapper from Hawaii to New York postmarked red oval ‘U.S./ Postage Paid’, one of only five recorded usages of this marking.
newspaper writer n.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
news writer1650
Mercurist1652
postman1695
news-dealer1788
newspaper writer?1789
newspaperman1806
news scribe1823
newspaperwoman1881
newsperson1973
newsie1975
?1789 T. J. Mathias Grove (ed. 3) 43 (note) Of the merits of a newspaper writer we shall say nothing: let the Doctor speak for himself.
1868 M. H. Smith Sunshine & Shadow in N.Y. 441 He has a finished education, and is one of the best newspaper writers in the city.
1997 C. Bohjalian Midwives (1998) ix. 124 The newspaper writers hadn't struggled in, nor had most of the other spectators.
2010 J. Weber in B. M. Dooley Dissemination of News iii. 69 A petition by Johann Carolus, a young book dealer, newspaper writer, and print shop owner from Strasbourg.
newspaper writing n.
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1798 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 372 By the Press as a Trade I wish you to understand, reviewing, newspaper-writing [etc.].
1886 Catholic World Apr. 26 No amount of newspaper-writing..would convey an adequate or accurate idea of the deplorable state to which these poor people..found themselves reduced.
1994 T. Boswell Cracking Show Introd. p. x One tone of voice is largely missing from this collection, although it occasionally finds its way into my daily newspaper writing.
2012 M. Bednarek & H. Caple News Disc. iv. 84 Our focus here is..on language in the output of the news process—the linguistic characteristics of newspaper writing.
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newspaper English n. the style of English used in newspapers; journalese.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > in particular literary contexts
pamphletism1716
newspaper English1856
journalese1882
officialese1884
novelese1900
headlinese1916
bureaucratese1942
1856 Sat. Rev. 9 Aug. 337/2 (title) Newspaper English.
1858 Sat. Rev. 8 May 475/2 Mr. Dickens's writings are the apotheosis of what has been called newspaper English.
1942 P. G. Perrin Writer's Guide & Index 606 Good newspaper English is simply informal English applied to the daily recording of affairs. It is a style written to be read rapidly and by the eye.
1994 Eng. Today Oct. 25/2 Nigerian newspaper English..shows a relative lack of idioms..and of original tropes.
2014 E. Smitterberg in M. Hundt Late Mod. Eng. Syntax xvi. 311 Examining the extent to which nineteenth-century British newspaper English shows signs of colloquialisation.
newspaper history n. (a) history as recorded by or evidenced in newspapers; (b) the history of newspaper publishing.
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1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 28. 218 Such like inanities of news-paper history.
1853 Harper's Mag. June 272/2 In short, the newspaper history of a country or a people is, after all, the truest history.
1896 Amer. Hist. Rev. 2 190 This newspaper history of each state is followed by a list of files of the eighteenth-century newspapers of that state.
1989 R. Whiting You gotta have Wa (1990) ii. 36 The Asahi Shimbun, in one of the great turnabouts of newspaper history, went on to sponsor..one of the biggest amateur sporting events in the world.
2010 R. Munter Hist. Irish Newspaper 1685–1760 iv. 67 One of the most striking features of early Irish newspaper history is the fact that they were circulated in such extremely limited numbers.
newspaperman n. a male newspaper journalist or reporter.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
news writer1650
Mercurist1652
postman1695
news-dealer1788
newspaper writer?1789
newspaperman1806
news scribe1823
newspaperwoman1881
newsperson1973
newsie1975
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. iii. 70 The newspaper-man was of course gratified.
1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs vi. 105 A Yankee newspaper man.
1959 F. Sondern Brotherhood of Evil vi. 98 He cringes when a newspaperman uses the phrase ‘super-sleuth’ or anything similar to describe him.
2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 22 Apr. Television news, say hardbitten newspapermen, consists of a reporter standing in front of a camera for 30 seconds telling viewers what has already happened.
newspaper scribe n. a journalist, a reporter; cf. news scribe n. at news n. Compounds 1a and scribe n.1 6c.
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1804 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Oct. 554/2 The newspaper scribe, in this bold assumption, has exhibited himself to the public as a man utterly unacquainted with history.
1904 Longman's Mag. Dec. 167 A sage newspaper-scribe observed that ‘although the Japanese disdain perspective in their pictures, there is no lack of it in their policy.’
2012 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Letters section) a25 Post columnist Terence Corcoran fiercely denounced the idea of newspaper scribes being held accountable to a public editor.
newspaper slip n. [ < slip n.2 10b] a newspaper, or part of one, printed on a long slip of paper.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > press-cutting agency > press-cutting
exsection1812
newspaper slip1830
cutting1856
clipping1857
press clipping1881
scissoring1881
press cutting1888
1830 London Morning Post 13 Apr. He read a very lengthy statement, partly from manuscript and partly from newspaper slips.
1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Sept. 199 Express mails were..established on all the leading post routes for letters and newspaper slips, which introduced an unexampled speed of communication into the country.
1899 New Eng. Mag. Dec. 446/2 Then followed a newspaper slip, neatly pasted on the page.
1906 T. W. Lawson Frenzied Finance 429 I shall spare my readers the enclosures. They were newspaper slips, printed on fairly thick paper, reproduced from unknown publications.
1980 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 15 Feb. 6 a/4 The Knight-Ridder Newspapers recently published a collection of newspaper slips, including this one.
newspaper stamp n. now historical a stamp tax imposed on newspapers in the United Kingdom between 1711 and 1855.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on other commodities
boscage1483
maletent1543
stackage1587
powder tax1775
newspaper stamp duty1815
newspaper stamp1826
timber due1883
carbon tax1979
1826 F. Place Diary 30 Nov. in Affairs of Others (2007) 195 If he paid the duty on the calico he printed..he would not be liable to the Newspaper stamp.
1874 Harper's Mag. Oct. 745/1 The whole power of the government was exerted..to discourage..cheap literature. The newspaper stamp was fourpence, the advertisement duty was three shillings.
1993 R. C. Taylor Goldsmith as Journalist 108 Approximately 9.4 million of the required newspaper stamps were issued in 1760.
2007 J. White London in 19th Cent. 229 A fever for reform among the middle classes and many below who saw the newspaper stamp and other taxes on knowledge as a block on reform and education.
newspaper stamp duty n. historical = newspaper stamp n.
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1815 Examiner 9 July 438/2 (heading) Newspaper stamp duty. On the motion for the committal of the Newspaper, Pamphlets, &c. Stamps Bill.
1836 Bell's Life in London 20 Mar. He could not hold out to the hon. member behind him..a promise to come forward with a proposition for a total repeal of the Newspaper Stamp Duty.
1856 W. T. Coggeshall Newspaper Rec. 101 Coincident with the reduction of the newspaper stamp duty, in 1836, was that of the advertisement duty.
1956 J. E. Gerald Brit. Press under Govt. Econ. Controls i. 5 The newspaper stamp duty..was allowed to lapse in 1855.
2012 D. Annal Easy Family Hist. (ed. 2) xi. 133 The key date is 29 June 1855, the day on which newspaper stamp duty was abolished and the era of the free press truly began.
newspaper stand n. (a) a piece of furniture on which newspapers are supported for reading; (b) a stall at which newspapers are sold.
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1845 Manchester Guardian 28 June 8/5 Mr. Fullalove has been instructed to sell by auction..eight handsome chairs;..rosewood newspaper stand; [etc.].
1849 Morning Post 20 Jan. 1/1 Eastern Counties Railway.—The Directors are willing to receive tenders..for renting the newspaper stands at this Station and at the other Stations on the Line.
1869 Staffordshire Sentinel 30 Oct. 7/1 30 Oct. 7/1 The Free Library and News-room are located in the large room to the left of the entrance... Near the door is a newspaper stand, capable of holding eight newspapers.
1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 31 At a news-paper stand he bought all the picture papers.
1910 Hastings & St. Leonards Observer 7 May 6/3 Messrs. Dawson & Harden will sell by auction..household furniture, comprising:—Bedroom suites in oak,..enclosed washstand, brass newspaper stands, floor and table lamps.
1955 Littlehampton Gaz. 8 July 2/3 The town Library is to have a really new look... The issue desk is also to be larger,..the partition leading to it being used as a newspaper stand.
1999 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 5 Dec. Parents..can't cover their children's eyes every time they pass an advertising hoarding or newspaper stand.
2011 D. Ó Donghaile Blasted Lit. i. 38 Its [sc. the story's] final explosion, occurring on a train platform by a newspaper stand and among a crowd of onlookers, is loaded with self-reflexive and symbolic meaning.
newspaperwoman n. (a) a female newspaper journalist or reporter; (b) a female newspaper seller.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
news writer1650
Mercurist1652
postman1695
news-dealer1788
newspaper writer?1789
newspaperman1806
news scribe1823
newspaperwoman1881
newsperson1973
newsie1975
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady xxxviii, in Macmillan's Mag. June 100/1 He really must object to that newspaper-woman.
1902 E. L. Banks Autobiogr. of ‘Newspaper Girl’ xviii. 208 One of the great requisites of the newspaper woman is that she shall dress well.
1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. v. 264 You discounted my newspaperwoman's instinct. Never miss a scoop.
1971 B. Graham Spy Trap i. 13 Christ! A bloody newspaper woman! He told her everything!
1988 J. Trollope Choir xiii. 228 He thrust twenty pence at the newspaper woman, gathered up his bags again, and dashed for the platform.
2011 V. P. Hodges et al. Beaver County iv. 57 Tracy's sister-in-law, Maude O. Thomas, was a prominent newspaper woman who was active in politics.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [adjective]
newspaperish1825
newspaperacious1843
newspaperial1855
newspapered1857
1843 W. M. Thackeray Confessions George Fitz-Boodle in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 76/1 He dispatched some critiques, both epistolary and newspaperacious, upon the former chapter of my Memoirs.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [adjective]
newspaperish1825
newspaperacious1843
newspaperial1855
newspapered1857
1855 ‘F. Fern’ Ruth Hall 221 He surely would be brotherly enough to point out to her some one of the many avenues so accessible to a man of extensive newspaperial and literary acquaintance.
1868 London Rev. 12 Dec. 638/1 Sensationalism..is, in the main, a ‘newspaperial’ product, as the name itself is newspaperial.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [adverb]
newspaperically1768
newspaperly1816
newspaperishly1858
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 280 The vast Pacific Ocean, commonly, yea, vulgarly, not to say, news-paperrically,..called..the South-sea.
1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 11 Apr. 93/1 For the last twenty years, we have been considerably exercised—newspaperically—by projects and theories for the relief of that popular and fashionable institution, known as Broadway.
ˈnewspaperist n. now rare a person with an interest in newspapers; a newspaper writer or contributor.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > one who talks about newspapers
newspaperist1809
1809 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 180 If I procured it [sc. paper] from the Stamp Office as a Newspaperist, I should have a drawback of 16 per cent.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 721 You make no mistake in calling a man a newspaperist who talks much about newspapers.
1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Feb. c14 I've done a lot of traveling in my life as a newspaperist.
1996 S. Blair Henry James & Writing Race & Nation iii. 101 In control of the last word, the newspaperistpar excellence promotes in the richly responsible author a certain nostalgic romanticism of the sort James attempts to combat.
ˈnewspaperized adj. adapted to or influenced by the style of newspapers.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to jargon > in newspaper style
newspaperized1831
newspapery1864
newspaperish1892
1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 605 To give a newspaperized report of the proceedings.
1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 807/2 The ordinary more or less newspaperized English of our day.
1920 J. Pennell Pen Drawing & Pen Draughtsmen iv. 131 Compare them [sc. the models] with the standardized, sterilized, newspaperized young man you can see every day advertised by Ikey Mo.
1999 Seattle Times (Nexis) 28 May c1 That is today's 700-word bit of newspaperized philosophy.
2007 J. M. Lutes Front-page Girls Notes 196 James's fascination with—and repulsion by—what he called ‘newspaperized’ writing has been well documented.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > small
newsbook1643
newspaperlinga1842
a1842 W. Maginn in A. A. Watts Life Watts (1884) II. 175 Head nurse of a hospital of rickety newspaperlings.
ˈnewspaperly adv. and adj. †(a) adv. as regards the newspapers; (b) adj. associated with or characteristic of newspapers.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [adverb]
newspaperically1768
newspaperly1816
newspaperishly1858
1816 J. Polidori Let. in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) I. xv. 364 Some pleasant accidents..is all we have to keep us newspaperly alive.
1866 United Service Mag. Mar. 336 Our esteemed brother officers might bear in mind that, it is not in the nature of men..to be Parliamentarily, or newspaperly badgered.
1911 Public 7 July 628/2 Our brethren of the East..have been regaled..with veracious news dispatches—so very newspaperly veracious!—about the awful experiences of Tacoma with woman suffrage and the wicked Recall.
1918 Printer's Ink 13 June 112 (advt.) This combination of newspapers..is bounded newspaperly by Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
1991 T. Dreiser Newspaper Days xi. 68 The capture of this one fact, as I rather felt at the time, was my making, newspaperly speaking.
1994 R. C. Harvey Art of Funnies 83/2 Crane handles the continuity of the murder trial sequence in newspaperly fashion: almost every day's strip begins with a caption block of headlines that announce the latest developments.
1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 25 June b4 The crossword is a very newspaperly institution; it's where they started about a hundred years ago.
2007 D. Mulry in A. Simmons & J. H. Stape Secret Agent 1 Such a perspective might be characterized as journalistic or ‘newspaperly’ (in a pejorative sense) rather than Conradian.
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newspaperv.
/ˈnjuːzpeɪpə/, /ˈnjuːspeɪpə/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpər/ΚΠ
1703 D. Defoe True-born Englishman (new ed.) in True Coll. Writings Explan. Pref. sig. B2v The Publisher of this has been News-paper'd into Goal already for it.
1795 J. Ames Let. 24 Feb. in Wks. (1854) I. 168 The newspapering a woman is an outrage.
1875 H. Ellison Stones from Quarry 118 Our peril is of being Newspapered, Be-magazined, be-booked to death.
1880 Catholic World Feb. 664 The royal family is as fully newspapered by the Times and the Daily Telegraph as it is by the old-fashioned Court Circular.
2. intransitive. To work on a newspaper; to write for newspapers. Also transitive with it. Now North American.
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1800 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 569 I have Newspapered it merely as a means of subsistence.
1943 Time 8 Mar. 64 He had newspapered in Hawaii.
1959 Time (Atlantic ed.) 6 July 11 Who newspapered in Chicago.
2000 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 25 Nov. 1 b [He] was brave enough to sport a gold earring while he newspapered out in Hettinger cowboy country.
3. transitive. To cover or protect with newspaper. Usually in passive.
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1855 C. Dickens Out of Town in Househ. Words 29 Sept. 193/1 Every house was shut up and newspapered.
1973 E. Williams Emlyn i. 7 I saw my two brothers sitting at the table neatly newspapered to save the cloth.
2000 Los Angeles Mag. (Nexis) 1 June 22 The store suddenly newspapered over its windows.
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