publishing house

noun

1. a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like:

   a venerable publishing house in Boston.

Word History and Origins

Origin of publishing house¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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.”

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Washington Post

In addition to heading up NPI, he also publishes a journal, Radix, and oversees a small publishing house.

From The Daily Beast

An independent Paris publishing house, Les Arènes, is said to have had a skeleton staff working on the project to thwart leaks.

From The Daily Beast

He was fired from his job as an editor at a publishing house, and his sister was also let go.

From The Daily Beast

Unable to publish anything in Iran, he found a German publishing house that wanted the work.

From The Daily Beast

John J. Scullion, S.J. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1984.

From The Daily Beast

The promoters went his security and put up the cash into the bargain, and he went back to the publishing house victorious.

From Project Gutenberg

It was an offer to “Floy” from a publishing house, to collect her newspaper articles into a volume.

From Project Gutenberg

He found the Routledges about to sit down to luncheon in a private room, up-stairs, in their publishing house.

From Project Gutenberg

The other is a man who paid a fifth-rate publishing house a goodly sum to issue what he calls 'a romance.'

From Project Gutenberg

The drain of many investments and the establishment of a publishing house had told heavily on Clemens's finances.

From Project Gutenberg