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publishing house

noun

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

    a venerable publishing house in Boston.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of publishing house1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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