bindery

American  

[bahyn-duh-ree, -dree] / ˈbaɪn də ri, -dri /

noun

• binderies
  plural

1. a place where books are bound.

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bindery British  

/ ˈbaɪndərɪ /

noun

1. a place in which books are bound

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• binderies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bindery

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10; bind + -ery

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Example Sentences

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bindery binderies

Once a 19th-century book bindery, the building was converted into luxe residences with unique character.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

The original building included a front office, print shop, bindery and library that housed thousands of books and manuscripts — some donated, some collected by Hall on his travels across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

In 2014, she moved the bindery to its current location, a two-story building on a tree-lined block anchored by the high school.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016

They did exceedingly high-quality work and had an archival bindery, too, and so I just was really taken with the whole enterprise.

From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 10, 2012

Furthermore all labor involved in sending the book to the bindery and receiving it again—no inconsiderable item—is eliminated.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

He arrived in Washington 30 years ago, became a U.S. citizen, and in 2000 was well into a career at local binderies when a forwarding job opened at the Government Printing Office.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2010

But the big snag is the shortage of men in binderies and shipping rooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every day, the Sisters hauled paper by the armload out of the cell to be shredded and soaked and re-pulped into new sheets in the binderies in the basement.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

In 1840 Harriet Martineau found only seven employments open to women in the United States, viz., teaching, needlework, keeping boarders, working in cotton mills and in book binderies, type-setting, and household service.

From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker

I find it takes 7 binderies four months to bind 325,000 books.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Albert Bigelow Paine

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