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View synonyms for newspaperman

newspaperman

[ nooz-pey-per-man, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos- ]

noun

, plural news·pa·per·men.
  1. a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  2. the owner or operator of a newspaper or news service.


newspaperman

/ ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpəˌmæn /

noun

  1. a man who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor
  2. the male owner or proprietor of a newspaper
  3. a man who sells newspapers in the street


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Gender Note

See -man.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of newspaperman1

First recorded in 1800–10; newspaper + -man

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Example Sentences

Shrake was a newspaperman, a magazine writer, screenwriter, and a fine novelist.

I was a newspaperman, just returned from the Middle East—a bit unsteady, still, in America.

Col is a great newspaperman, has a great tabloid sensibility, but what does he know about turning the paper into BuzzFeed?

Baron is a lifelong newspaperman, highly respected in the business.

Remember when Rupert Murdoch was the ‘last great newspaperman’?

The widow of a wealthy Pittsburgh newspaperman, she was now active in Pennsylvania suffrage organizations.

I know all about deadlines; I was a newspaperman when you were vainly suckling canine dugs.

Swanson didn't look like the general conception of a small-town newspaperman.

Steele, a former newspaperman, learned from his association with that other arch-patriot, Jung.

But we did not suppose it possible to catch an American newspaperman with such a bare hook as that.

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