newsagentn.
/ˈnjuːzˌeɪdʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uzˌeɪdʒ(ə)nt/ Chiefly British.
A dealer in newspapers and periodicals, esp. the owner of a shop where these are sold; (now also) the shop itself, usually also selling tobacco, confectionery, etc.
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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
1811 Bath Chron. 8 Aug. 1/5 Orders will also be received by Mr. Simms, bookseller, Bath; Mr, Latham, news-agent, Bristol, of whom prospectuses may be had.
1846 Amer. Whig Rev. Sept. 291 The nominal price of the paper is fivepence, but it is sold to the news agents..for fourpence.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 291/2 The regular price at a news-agent's shop being 5d.
1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxix. 43 Charged by your news-agent one shilling for a single number.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Apr. 307/1 The author..bases an estimate of what it [sc. the reading public] reads on the statistics of public libraries and on examination of the stock of average lending libraries and newsagents.
1987 S. Johnson Commissioner xii. 138 The next day he bought the newspapers at his local newsagent in the Sablon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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