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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.)

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reader +‎ -ship

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