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printer's error

American  

noun

  1. an error introduced into typeset copy by the compositor, so that the printer cannot charge for correcting it. p.e, p.e.


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Even if it’s not a printer’s error or a truncation, fat might not mean what we think it means.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015

Of course, no one would try to spend a $7.6 million coin, or mail a letter with one of those postage stamps made famous by a printer’s error.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2014

When the song was published in 1907, a printer's error had given him a new name: I. Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Page 74, possible printer's error, extra comma in date, 'on May, 17, 1901.'.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming

Page 59, possible printer's error, sensive for sensitive 'to work a sensive recording apparatus'.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming

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