newsprint

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

news +‎ print

Noun[edit]

newsprint (countable and uncountable, plural newsprints)

  1. An inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers.
    • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 73:
      The journalism trade publication Editor and Publisher announced in the spring of 1954 that more newsprint had been generated about Jorgensen during the previous year than about any other individual—over a million and a half words, the rough equivalent of fifteen full-length books.

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