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Definition of "news-agent" [news-agent]

  • A person who deals in newspapers; a news-vender. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "news-agent" in a sentence
  • "Six weeks later, Nicola — who acted as regular news-agent to the house — informed me that Grandmamma had left the whole of her fortune to Lubotshka, with, as her trustee until her majority, not Papa, but Prince Ivan Ivanovitch!"
  • "It is quite common for the Court barber to marry the King's daughter, and to succeed him as ruler; but the barber was, of course, surgeon or blood-letter as well as the principal news-agent -- the forerunner of the daily newspaper of our times."
  • "Then there is the humorous news-agent who takes charge of the smoking car between Jamaica and Oyster Bay."