paper route

noun

US
: a job of delivering newspapers to the same places every day

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My paper route was along this area. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026 Schussler got his career start early, running a neighborhood paper route and had more than a dozen jobs before turning 16. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 June 2026 Almost everything that my sister disliked about the paper route was something that appealed to me. Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 And open-field comments from respondents hailed the entrepreneurial values gained by managing a paper route. Brandon Busteed, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for paper route

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“Paper route.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20route. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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