printshop
See also: print shop
English
Alternative forms
- print shop, print-shop
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪnt.ʃɒp/
Noun
printshop (plural printshops)
- A shop that sells prints.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
- (uncommon) Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263:
- As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.
Synonyms
- (shop that sells prints): printseller, printseller's
- (shop that makes prints to order): copy shop
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