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newsagent

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++news·a·gent /ˈnjuːzˌeɪdʒənt $ ˈnuːz-/ noun [countable] British English  1. SHOP/STOREsomeone who owns or works in a shop that sells newspapers, magazines, sweets, and cigarettes 报刊经销人2. newsagent’s a shop which sells newspapers, magazines, sweets, and cigarettes 报刊经销店;书报亭
Examples from the Corpus
newsagentHowever, at the committee's latest meeting he supported two amendments dealing with the status of church shops and newsagents.Only two half-days a week in the local newsagents.Try to talk to parents with children at the proposed school, or to the local newsagent.
news·a·gent nounChineseSyllable
works or sells shop that Corpus a owns in who someone


newsagent
newsagent /ˈnjuːzˌeɪdʒənt $ ˈnuːz-/ noun [countable] British English
1. someone who owns or works in a shop that sells newspapers, magazines, sweets, and cigarettes
2. newsagent’s a shop which sells newspapers, magazines, sweets, and cigarettes


news·agentBrE /ˈnjuːzeɪdʒənt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈnuːzeɪdʒənt/ 🔊 (BrE) (US news·deal·er) nouna person who owns or works in a shop selling newspapers and magazines, and often sweets/candy and cigarettes 报刊经销人;报刊经销商news·agent's (
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news·agents
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(BrE also ˈpaper shop) a shop/store that sells newspapers, magazines, sweets/candy, etc. 报刊经销店;书报亭I'll go to the newsagent's on my way home. 回家时我要去趟报刊店。🔊🔊

censorship, correspondent, coverage, editor, exclusive, journalist, news agency, newspaper, report, stringer