compositor
noun
a person who sets the type or text for printing.
compositors
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pluralof compositor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In later years, compositors — we called them printers — would use heavy cardboard flats to create mock-ups of each page, a job strictly restricted to members of the printers’ guild.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
And with compositors setting 700-1,500 ems an hour, and an American newspaper of 1880 averaging about 75,000 ems of copy, typesetting was one of a newspaper’s biggest costs.
From Economist ● Mar. 30, 2018
Etaoin shrdlu is an expression well known to newspaper compositors and little-known to readers.
From BBC ● May 3, 2013
I also need the money to hire some skilled compositors to help with the visuals effects on the show.
From Forbes ● Dec. 7, 2012
I hadna long opened the house until the compositors and the pressmen, the bookbinders, gold-beaters, and others, a' came back to it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
