printery

American  

[prin-tuh-ree] / ˈprɪn tə ri /

noun

plural

printeries

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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Etymology

Origin of printery

First recorded in 1630–40; print + -ery

Example Sentences

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

"Joe," he burst out, "how the devil is the printery going to run without you?"

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

Then Joe arranged with a printery to set up the type weekly; with a bindery to bind, fold, bundle, and address the papers; and with Patrick Flynn, truckman, to distribute the papers to newsdealers.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

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 Oppenheim, James

At fourteen years of age, he was apprenticed to a printery and served until he was of age.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert