publishing house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of publishing house
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Lyons describes Skyhorse as a free-speech publishing house that offers iconoclastic works that other companies won’t touch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Adrienne Vaughan, 45, the head of the US branch of Bloomsbury publishing house, died after she was flung from the motorboat in the holiday hotspot in southern Italy in August 2023.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
The novel kicks off with the theft of a book manuscript from a publishing house — a book, we learn, that may contain the secrets to an entirely new way of looking at the world.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
By the 1980s, Iliescu was out of politics and working as a director at a government-affiliated academic publishing house.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
I could have stayed with friends of the family and interned in New York at some publishing house, as Mom suggested.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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