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  • noun A printing company, or the printing section of a publisher
  • noun The building in which printing takes place

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Examples

  • Is there enough space in central manchester for another 'printworks' on the site of the MEN offices then?

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • London's fume-filled, concrete roundabout may not have had the glamour or scale of California's Silicon Valley, but the label helped pinpoint a new generation of tech talent that included music site Last.fm and printworks Moo.com.

    The tech startup stars 2011

  • Press Shop8 Smith Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2JL, 01481 724829Guernsey's biggest bookshop can be found on a hill off the main shopping street, in a building that once housed the Guernsey Press printworks.

    Independent bookshops in south-west of the UK 2011

  • When I was about nine or 10 I wanted to be what all the kids on the estate wanted to be: either work for London Transport – a tube driver or a bus driver – or down at the printworks.

    This much I know: Andy McNab Mark Townsend 2010

  • Two 16-year-old boys, an 18-year-old man, and a 44-year-old man, were arrested in connection with the theft of the books from a printworks, and on suspicion of obtaining property by deception.

    Boing Boing: May 4, 2003 - May 10, 2003 Archives 2003

  • A group has been set up in Glasgow to campaign against ID cards and will hold a public meeting at 7pm, Thursday 20th May at the printworks social centre, 58 Albion Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow, to try and get more people involved in the campaign.

    Public meeting in Glasgow, 20th May, on ID cards James 2004

  • A group has been set up in Glasgow to campaign against ID cards and will hold a public meeting at 7pm, Thursday 20th May at the printworks social centre, 58 Albion Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow, to try and get more people involved in the campaign.

    April 2004 James 2004

  • Outside the second mosque in Stains, which is housed in a former printworks, the faithful file out from Friday prayers animatedly, children play catch between the adults and women stand in groups laughing.

    France split over battle for Muslim souls and minds 2004

  • A group has been set up in Glasgow to campaign against ID cards and will hold a public meeting at 7pm, Thursday 20th May at the printworks social centre, 58 Albion Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow, to try and get more people involved in the campaign.

    Archive 2004-05-01 James 2004

  • Our factories, printworks, sugar refineries, breweries, and other works, find it a matter of immense cost and difficulty to get a plentiful supply of water from wells and pumping engines, or from natural sources.

    The Coal Question~ Of Supposed Substitutes for Coal William Stanley Jevons 1865

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