newsagency
noun
newsagency is a noun meaning “A newsagent's shop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-W-S-A-G-E-N-C-Y, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of newsagency is newsagencies.
What does newsagency mean?
noun
- 1
A newsagent's shop.
- 2
Uncommon form of news agency (“an organisation that gathers and distributes news to newspapers and radio and television broadcasters”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of newsagency
- newsagencies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is newsagency?
Newsagency appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does newsagency come from?
From news + agency.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).