paper route
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈpeɪpər ruːt/
- US
:
reparto de periódicos
- When I was a kid, I earned some extra money by delivering papers on my paper route every morning.
- paper route money
- got a paper route
- worked a paper route
He lived on the street that I lived on as a little boy and my brother and I had a paper route and we sold papers to the people on that street.
- He lived on the street that I lived on as a little boy and my brother and I had a paper route and we sold papers to the people on that street.
- And because so I was at a paper route and literally I trimmed trees, I had an espresso cart.
Examples
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You got a paper route I can have?
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Toby enters the kitchen, coming from his paper route.
Fiction book (1993) -
I think I gave up a paper route once.
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- Hey, pop, are you gonna take us on our paper route this morning?
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Um, I just got a paper route.
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What happened, you lose your paper route?
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Yeah, we had paper routes in those days.
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I had to save up money from my paper route to buy my Molly doll.
Blog text (2) -
We, as kids, worked too... paper routes at first, followed by part-time and summer jobs.
Blog text (19) -
By the time I came to the end of my paper route, the morning darkness was a faint, rosy grayness.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
1
2.7
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a regular job or path for delivering newspapers' is directly derivable from 'paper' (newspaper) + 'route' (designated path), so the compound denotes the route used to deliver papers. This compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun paper route comes from the image of a young person carrying papers along the same route each morning to deliver them to customers. Because this was a regular 'job' and a set 'path', the phrase now means a regular job or path for 'delivering newspapers'.