publishing house

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noun

a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.

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Origin of publishing house

First recorded in 1820–30

Words nearby publishing house

public works, Public Works Administration, publish, publisher, publishing, publishing house, publishment, publish or perish, pubo-, pubococcygeus, puboprostatic

How to use publishing house in a sentence

Parents with older kids may consider the $99 Yoto Player, which features content cards instead of characters and has additional publishing house partnerships, meaning it offers more mature titles like “The Secret Garden.”
Toniebox review: Screen-free entertainment that’s music to kids’ ears|Tony Ware|July 28, 2021|Popular-Science
With few exceptions — including still-existing magazines Bust and B---- — zinesters whose products became “real” magazines, or who “sold out” to a publishing house to gain wider distribution, risked condemnation.
Newsletters may threaten the mainstream media, but they also build communities|Sarah Ovink|July 8, 2021|Washington Post
He also oversaw a range of business ventures, including a boat- and plane-renovation company, a publishing house for children’s books and a computer service for lawyers.
F. Lee Bailey, defense lawyer for the famous and infamous, dies at 87|Paul W. Valentine|June 3, 2021|Washington Post
His anonymity did not last long—in 2016 while the auction for The Woman in the Window was underway, bidders learned of his real name and, according to an exposé by Ian Parker published in the New Yorker in 2019, many publishing houses dropped out.
What to Know About The Woman in the Window as the Movie Adaptation Hits Netflix|Annabel Gutterman|May 14, 2021|Time

Ilan Stavans, the publisher of Restless Books, a small publishing house that focuses on translating world literature for English-speaking audiences, said translators should be selected based on sensibilities, not their identity.
Who should translate Amanda Gorman’s work? That question is ricocheting around the translation industry.|Sindya Bhanoo|March 25, 2021|Washington Post
This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin