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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
readership
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wide
▪ This would prevent questionable findings influencing a much wider readership.
▪ Upstarts and Livewire have received a wide readership already.
▪ Possibly a good choice for a Christmas gift for it will amuse a wide readership.
▪ By bringing it out as an A-format, £4.99, mass-market paperback we hope to attract a much wider readership.
▪ It is an interesting, well written book and I anticipate that it will gain a wide readership.
▪ Hufbauer's pioneering approach deserves a wide readership.
▪ Within a single volume a range of topics is covered that will also be of interest to a wider readership.
▪ In the hundred years after he died, the Pilgrim's Progress found an increasingly wide readership among Nonconformists.
■ NOUN
survey
▪ Such agencies utilise consumer panels, readership surveys and television audience measurement to generate their information. 17.
▪ Please let us know in future readership surveys!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The magazine has a readership of 60,000.
▪ The magazine now hopes to attract a wider readership.
▪ The newspaper now has a readership of more than 500,000.
▪ These books are obviously written for a young readership.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Like a personal chair, a readership is usually conferred on an individual for merit in scholarship, research and published work.
▪ Most newspapers have a few pages of features, and that's another kind of readership.
▪ Newspaper and magazine readership is measured by written questionnaires.
▪ Such agencies utilise consumer panels, readership surveys and television audience measurement to generate their information. 17.
▪ Such treatment may reflect the readership the authors had in mind.
▪ The paper was returned because it did not suit the magazines's readership, but was accepted by Infection and Immunity.
▪ The political affiliations of a newspaper, its locality and the demographics of its readership should all be taken into account.
▪ This paper is an evening paper and has a very high readership.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Readership

Readership \Read"er*ship\, n. The office of reader.
--Lyell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
readership

1719, "office of a reader," from reader + -ship. Meaning "total number of readers of a publication" is from 1914.

Wiktionary
readership

n. The collected readers of a publication.

WordNet
readership

n. the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.)

Usage examples of "readership".

Throughout the thirties, forties, and fifties it drew a steady and devoted readership and served as a reliable expression of the substance that undergirded Plains Indian religious beliefs.

However, I have been no less fortunate in that a number of eminent scholars, who liked the plan for a history of ideas aimed at a general readership, agreed to read either parts or all of the typescript, and to give me the benefit of their expertise.

Netherlands by its luxuriant publishing activity, the most vigorous on the Continent, European writers and scholars, whose works were blocked by censorship at home, came to find in the Netherlands willing publishers and distribution in Latin to an international readership.

It became evident that these seriocomic fantasies, ostensibly aimed at children, enjoyed a large and enthusiastic readership among adults.

Her work speaks to the widest and most varied readership I have ever seen: from preteens to straight and gay adults, including the entire staff of a nuclear sub.

I will discuss later, shojo manga acquired a certain number of male readers, but even so that readership has not expanded beyond a limited number of afficionados.

The printers knew their readership, and printed the Almanack on soft thin paper.

It probably does not matter much for a popular readership, but the difference between an Assistant Professor—.

About a newspaper columnist who had liberal ideas and a conservative readership.

Under his direction the campus literary magazine not only doubled its circulation and quintupled its readership, but brought several of its contributors reprint fees, and one a book contract.

There are probably over 500 regularly publishing with readerships running from a few hundred to over 500,000.

But a more important reason is that the books the films are based on have strong, loyal readerships that have put added pressure on the filmmakers to be as true to the written word as possible.

They took the exposed maximum-classified memorandum and used it as a springboard for the wild waters of heroic speculation, knowing their issues would be grabbed by their unsceptical readership.