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newspaperwoman

[ nooz-pey-per-woom-uhn, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos- ]

noun

plural newspaperwomen.
  1. a woman employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  2. a woman who is the owner or operator of a newspaper or news service.


newspaperwoman

/ ˈːˌɪəˌʊə /

noun

  1. a woman who works for a newspaper as a reporter or editor
  2. the female owner or proprietor of a newspaper
  3. a woman who sells newspapers in the street
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See -woman.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of newspaperwoman1

First recorded in 1880–85; newspaper + woman
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Example Sentences

She was the highest-paid newspaperwoman in the Hearst organization, but the overwork came at a cost.

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Many of them were educated – some suffragists and newspaperwomen or even union advocates – and they purposefully helped create the twisted race politics that Sherman-Breland describes.

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Bob, who was taken from us far too young, taught a generation of newspapermen and newspaperwomen how to take our jobs seriously without taking ourselves seriously – to be skeptics without becoming cynics.

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Residents hid runaway slaves until they could be moved “to the comparative safety of the interior,” according to published recollections from Nichols, the newspaperwoman.

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Instead, her fluency in Japanese and background as a newspaperwoman made her ideal for “morale operations” in Asia, also known as “black” propaganda — spreading authentic-sounding misinformation designed to demoralize and confuse the enemy.

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