printery

American  

[prin-tuh-ree] / ˈprɪn tə ri /

noun

• printeries
  plural

1. (formerly) an establishment for typographic printing.

2. an establishment where printing, as of books or newspapers, etc., is done.

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printery British  

/ ˈprɪntərɪ /

noun

1. an establishment in which printing is carried out

2. an establishment in which fabrics are printed

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• printeries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of printery

First recorded in 1630–40; print + -ery

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Example Sentences

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printery

Now that the government has built a new printery and a $3,200,000 bitumen plant, the board has to rush construction of the first schools so men can be trained to staff them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next door is a printery, operated by a Costa Rican.

From Prowling about Panama by George A. Miller

Those days followed one another with ever-deepening gloom, in which the trembling printery and all the human beings that were part of it seemed steeped in a growing twilight.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

But during the last few months a teacher—Myra Craig—had been coming to the printery to have some work done for the school.

From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

When the lad was fourteen years old, we find him setting type in his father's printery.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

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