newsvendor

Questions about newsvendor

What does newsvendor mean?

newsvendor means "someone who sells newspapers".

How many syllables are in newsvendor?

newsvendor has 3 syllables and divides as news-ven-dor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for newsvendor?

Close synonyms include newsagent, newsdealer, newsstand operator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is newsvendor a common word?

newsvendor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.