Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An office where typographic printing is done.
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Examples
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He went to work in a printing-office, - I have heard him tell of it many times, - and he got three dollars a week, at first.
Chapter 8 2010
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Although Cleveland was elected and inaugurated without any bloodshed, and Chase supported in a measure his administration, yet he received his discharge a few weeks afterward, at the instance of the president and Secretary of War Endicott, from the position he held in the government printing-office.
Honey For Friends, Stings for Enemies: The Washington Bee | Edwardian Promenade 2010
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We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, — men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, — a change takes place in the relations of the races.
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Are you going my way, towards the printing-office.
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Pepler opened his printing-office at Ditchling in 1915 with a fount of Caslon Old Face type and a Stanhope hand-press of the year 1790.
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We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, — men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, — a change takes place in the relations of the races.
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I shall go straight to the printing-office now and have the great piece of news inserted in the
Rosmersholm 2008
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Are you going my way, towards the printing-office.
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I shall go straight to the printing-office now and have the great piece of news inserted in the
Rosmersholm 2008
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Janet, “that the little Gillie-whitefoot was come from the printing-office.”
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