paper round

paper round
noun
the route taken when delivering newspapers every day
Syn: ↑paper route
Hypernyms: ↑path, ↑route, ↑itinerary

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paper round or (N American) paper route noun
(the job of making) a regular series of newspaper deliveries
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Main Entry:paper

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paper round UK US noun [countable] [singular paper round plural paper rounds] british
the job of delivering newspapers to a group of homes, or the group of homes that someone has to deliver newspapers to
Thesaurus: types of job or workhyponym general words relating to jobs and workhypernym

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ˈpaper round [paper round paper rounds] (BrE) (NAmE ˈpaper route) noun
the job of delivering newspapers to houses; the route taken when doing this

I used to do a Sunday morning paper round.


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