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reprint

American  
[ree-print, ree-print] / riˈprɪnt, ˈriˌprɪnt /

verb (used with object)

  1. to print again; print a new impression of.

noun

  1. a reproduction in print of matter already printed.

  2. an offprint.

  3. a new impression, without alteration, of a book or other printed work.

  4. Philately. an impression from the original plate after the issuance of a stamp has ceased and its use for postage has been voided.

reprint British  

noun

  1. a reproduction in print of any matter already published; offprint

  2. a reissue of a printed work using the same type, plates, etc, as the original

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verb

  1. (tr) to print again

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Etymology

Origin of reprint

First recorded in 1545–55; re- + print

Explanation

To reprint something is to publish it again, or issue it in a new form. When a book is a best seller, its publisher will reprint thousands, or even millions, of copies. Sometimes books go out of print for a long time before a publisher reprints them, and in other cases they are continuously popular enough that a publishing company will reprint them constantly. You can call a newer printed edition of a book or magazine article a reprint, too. Reprint adds the "again" prefix re-, to print, from the Old French preinte, "impression."

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Reprint this same article a million strong and see that every university in the land has copies, to enable every student to study this contribution to sound thinking for the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

But thanks to some remarkable detective work, Manhattan's Kraus Reprint Corp. has tracked down every issue of 104 U.S. and British little magazines, plus six French ones, and is republishing them in book form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reprint of an early novel come back to plague its Brain-Truster author.

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Reprint of an early novelet by an author who is at last beginning to be appreciated.

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Reprint of works out of print may be licensed by the Ministry of Public Instruction.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

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