Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - newsman

(newsmen) A newsman is a journalist for a newspaper or for a television or radio news programme. (JOURNALISM) N-COUNT NEWSPAPER (newspapers) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A newspaper is a publication consisting of a number of large sheets of folded paper, on which news, advertisements, and other information is printed. He was carrying a newspaper... They read their daughter’s allegations in the newspaper. ...a Sunday newspaper feature about AIDS in America. N-COUNT 2. A newspaper is an organization that produces a newspaper. It is Britain’s fastest growing national daily newspaper... Alexander Lazarus is a food critic for the newspaper. N-COUNT 3. Newspaper consists of pieces of old newspapers, especially when they are being used for another purpose such as wrapping things up. He found two pots, each wrapped in newspaper. N-UNCOUNT