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
Fraught with still greater danger is, however, the frequent practice of compositors of bringing their type-stained hands in contact with their lips or keeping eatables in composing rooms, etc.
From Economist ● May 23, 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
In Berlin the pressmen struck, but not the compositors; one newspaper could appear, another not.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
