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, pubococcygeus, PUC, puca

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
In addition to heading up NPI, he also publishes a journal, Radix, and oversees a small publishing house.
A Racist’s Crazy Ski Resort Smackdown|James Kirchick|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An independent Paris publishing house, Les Arènes, is said to have had a skeleton staff working on the project to thwart leaks.
Hollande's Jilted Lover Valerie Trierweiler Tells All|Tracy McNicoll|September 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was fired from his job as an editor at a publishing house, and his sister was also let go.
Iranian Poet Blacklisted for Being Gay|Nina Strochlic|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Unable to publish anything in Iran, he found a German publishing house that wanted the work.
Iranian Poet Blacklisted for Being Gay|Nina Strochlic|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
John J. Scullion, S.J. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1984.
The Backstory of ‘Noah’ Is Full of Giants, Horny Angels, and a Grieving God|Tim Townsend|March 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The promoters went his security and put up the cash into the bargain, and he went back to the publishing house victorious.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It was an offer to “Floy” from a publishing house, to collect her newspaper articles into a volume.
Ruth Hall|Fanny Fern
He found the Routledges about to sit down to luncheon in a private room, up-stairs, in their publishing house.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
The other is a man who paid a fifth-rate publishing house a goodly sum to issue what he calls 'a romance.'
The White Shield|Myrtle Reed
The drain of many investments and the establishment of a publishing house had told heavily on Clemens's finances.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine