| 单词 | space-writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspace-writer d. Originally U.S. ( In senses 7c, 7d, 11e.) With the sense ‘paid by or assessed upon the extent of space occupied’, as space-artist, space-writer; space-bill, space rate, space writing; (also) relating to the purchase of (advertising, etc.) space, as space-buyer, space salesman. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > working practices and conditions > [adjective] > paid according to space occupied space1883 on space1886 society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising in the press > [adjective] > advertising space space1948 1883 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gaz. 19 Aug. 4/4 Editorial writers..rarely make as much money as space writers. 1887 Westm. Rev. Oct. 858 The general substitution of ‘space writing’ for the work of salaried reporters. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 207 [By] the ‘guarantee space’ system..a member of the staff is guaranteed a stipulated sum of money every week, and as much over that amount as he or she makes by writing at ordinary or special space-rates. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 233 Space artists get paid two dollars a single-column cut. 1939 F. M. Ford Let. 14 Mar. (1965) 316 You can be certain of occupying a certain space in the pages of the Review and being paid at the usual..space rates. 1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop i. 11 Mrs Lawson, the space~buyer of Rooster's. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing iv. xxxv. 377 Dr. Magnus..was now space-salesman for an obscure little Polish gazette. 1972 G. Bromley In Absence of Body iii. 41 He's the chief space buyer. 1988 Media Week 2 Sept. 14/2 With rare and splendid exceptions space salesmen are not statisticians. 2001 Isis 92 487 Howard suggested that Burbank's celebrity derived from the need for ‘space-writers’ to fill up column inches for an audience of ‘parlor naturalists and lovers of the wonderful in nature.’ < as lemmas |
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