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newsletter

UK/ˈnjuːzˌlɛtə/US/ˈn(j)uzˌlɛtɚ/
nounB1+2 meaningsOccasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,937 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: newsletters

A newsletter is a short piece of news sent out on a regular schedule to everyone on a list. The school one that comes home crumpled in a bag, the running club's, the email you signed up for once and still get every Thursday.

A newsletter comes from a group to its own people — a company to its staff, a charity to its donors, a writer to her readers — and that is what separates it from a newspaper. Nobody buys a newsletter, and it carries the group's news rather than the world's. It goes out weekly, monthly or quarterly, and the verbs around it are all about the list: you subscribe to a newsletter, you sign up for one, you unsubscribe when you have had enough. Most arrive by email now, though the school still prints its own. Write it as one word — no space, no hyphen.

Definitions of newsletter

  1. 1nounnewsletterA short regular publication that an organisation sends to its members, staff or subscribers.B1+~63%

    “The club newsletter goes out on the first of the month.”

  2. 2nounemailThe regular email a business sends to people who have given it their address.B1~37%

    “Sign up to our newsletter and get ten percent off.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 27 sentences found in the wild and placed 27 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

newsletter is a regular publication.

Where it comes from

From news + letter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in News & Communication, Marketing & Advertising

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newsletter in the wild

  • Jonathan's Space Report (JSR) is a newsletter about the Space Age hosted at Jonathan's Space Page.

    Jonathan's Space Report

  • Started in 1989, the newsletter reports on recent space launches, International Space Station activities, spacecraft developments, and newly released space-related data.

    Jonathan's Space Report

  • The new newsletter was established totally independent of Music Week, licensing the chart data directly from Official Charts Company and other chart providers.

    UKChartsPlus

  • The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) is a newsletter that covers professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.

    Wrestling Observer Newsletter

  • The newsletter is often considered the first "dirt sheet", which is a wrestling publication covering the art from a real-life perspective.

    Wrestling Observer Newsletter

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.