Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The readers of a publication considered as a group.
- noun Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of reader. See
reader , 3 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of reader.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The collected
readers of apublication .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although we have readers across Canada in pretty much every law school, in major law firms, courthouses and government legal departments, the majority of our readership is the larger Canadian public.
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But my readership is also relatively small, and certifiably filled with people I know or know online as being other moms.
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Let me say it once again: our readership is awesomely creative, smart, and funny.
You May Now Call Your Computer A… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Let me say it once again: our readership is awesomely creative, smart, and funny.
You May Now Call Your Computer A… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Unlike traditional media, the instant feedback of publishing on the internet, and direct contact with the readership is also part of the appeal.
Boing Boing 2005
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Looks like our readership is about equally divided on getting the DVD.
October 2005 2005
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Looks like our readership is about equally divided on getting the DVD.
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Generally, they well understand (maybe just because they have to sell papers and advertisements) that their readership is a diverse group of human beings with varying sensitivities and varying ways of engaging with, and processing, disturbing information.
IsThatLegal? 2003
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Any increase in readership is important so if the site can be supplied in other formats, that’s a good thing, right?
p2pnet goes mobile 2005
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Might as well post it on TMZ as the readership is much more enlightened.
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