stereotype
noun
a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.
stereotyper
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a word derived from
stereotype.
Example Sentences
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John Dunlap, 82, a Washington Post stereotyper from 1967 to 1982 who later became a contract distributor of the newspaper, died Dec. 18 at his home in Murrells Inlet, S.C.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2018
Mr. Dunlap was born in Franklin, Pa. He was a stereotyper for papers in Florida and Massachusetts before joining The Post, he made relief molds for the printing press.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2018
He tells of a stereotyper who made enough money to buy an apartment house by standing bets against any candidate or project approved of by the Tribune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor are the names of the printer and stereotyper of the present volume without a fraternal interest.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
Now, the ten-cylinder Hoe, steam driven, works off 20,000 sheets in an hour, and more, as the stereotyper may multiply the forms.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
