bookmaking
Americannoun
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the process or skilled trade of producing physical books, including everything from designing to printing and binding.
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the work or trade of a bookmaker; the practice of determining odds and accepting bets, especially for the sport of horse racing.
Example Sentences
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Thus, we’ve had microhistories of coal, sugar, rain, dust, cotton, butter, notebooks, eating utensils and bookmaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Shohei Ohtani’s statement blames his interpreter for wiring huge sums from his bank account to a bookmaking operation but leaves questions unanswered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
After training as an accountant, Ms Coates helped build the group into one of the biggest online gambling companies from her father's bookmaking business.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
Curated by Smithsonian conservators and preservation experts, the exhibition focuses on the art of hand-press bookmaking spanning from the invention of movable type in the 1400s to the 19th century, when bookbinding was mechanized.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
The track installed additional mutuel windows, constructed about a dozen bookmaking facilities in the infield, opened up all vacant areas of the clubhouse, and hired an army of extra personnel.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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