news agencyn.
/ˈnjuːz ˌeɪdʒ(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uz ˌeɪdʒ(ə)nsi/ 1. Now usually in form newsagency. A business that sells newspapers and periodicals.
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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.
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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).
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