sta|tion|er

sta|tion|er
sta|tion|er «STAY shuh nuhr», noun.
1. a person who sells paper, pens, pencils, and other writing materials, and now, often, newspapers, magazines, some books, tobacco, and trinkets.
2. a) a bookseller, especially one dealing primarily in books published by himself, such as was common in England in the early days of publishing. b) Obsolete. a publisher.
╂[< Medieval Latin stationarius shopkeeper, especially, a bookseller; (originally) a stationary seller, as distinct from a roving peddler < Late Latin, a postmaster at a military post-station]

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