Definition of "newsvendor" [newsvendor]

• A person who runs a newsstand selling newspapers, magazines, etc. (noun)

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• "Then the demons arrived, but instead of claws, they attacked us with the twine-cutting hook-rings of a newsvendor, and we were powerless to stop them."
• "I was once walking through Liverpool Street station and the newsvendor had written the day's headline on a board."
• "A newsvendor at the corner spreads a newspaper placard upon the wood pavement, pins the corners down with stones, and we glimpse something about: —"