| 单词 | on space |
| 释义 | > as lemmason space b. Journalism (originally U.S.) on space: on the basis of payment according to article length; (also) employed on this basis. Cf. sense 7c. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > working practices and conditions > [adjective] > paid according to space occupied space1883 on space1886 1886 Fresno (Calif.) Daily Republican 6 May (headline) Working on space. 1890 Warren (Pa.) Ledger 14 Mar. Other correspondents are generally paid on space for their work. 1894 E. L. Shuman Steps into Journalism 83 Articles by the beginner are nearly always submitted ‘on space’. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 202 The woman..if she is ‘on space’ will soon find the editors with ‘no work on hand to-day—sorry—hope something will turn up to-morrow’ attitudes. 1933 E. Waugh Scoop iii. i. 259 I've only been on the paper three weeks... It is the first time I've drawn any money... I'm ‘on space’, you see. 1971 D. Ayerst Guardian xxv. 357 Williams represented the Guardian in St Petersburg at first on a small salary..and then..on space. 2003 T. C. Smythe Gilded Age Press 1865–1900 i. 7 The Herald sent George Alfred Townsend, an experienced, thirty-year-old reporter working on space (he was paid for expenses and the length of his articles) to Scuffletown. < as lemmas |
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