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readership - definition and meaning
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 a publication .
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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
reader + -ship
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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.
Mister Thorne on How Lawyers Write : Law is Cool 2008
But my readership is also relatively small, and certifiably filled with people I know or know online as being other moms.
Exposed | Her Bad Mother 2007
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
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
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
Looks like our readership is about equally divided on getting the DVD.
October 2005 2005
Looks like our readership is about equally divided on getting the DVD.
POLL RESULTS: Star Wars Episode III on DVD 2005
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
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
Might as well post it on TMZ as the readership is much more enlightened.
Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch 2009
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