newsagentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

newsagent (plural newsagents)

1. A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
   • 1990 February 11, Kendall Lovett, “Gay Newspapers Banned”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 2:

     The papers are freely available in Sydney bookshops and newsagents.

2. The proprietor of such a business.
   • 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:

     However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!

参考

• news agency