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out of print

out of print prepositional phrase: not available from the publisher (of a printed work, especially a book, or a music release).

Prepositional phrase

  1. (music industry) Not available from the publisher (of a printed work, especially a book, or a music release).
    • Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
    • [I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 488
    Synonyms:
    OP, OOP
    Antonyms:
    in print

out of print meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

out of print in Tamil

பதிப்பில்லை, மறுபதிப்பில்லாத

out of print in Malayalam

no longer available, unavailable, unobtainable
അച്ചടിയിലില്ലാത്ത, വിലയ്ക്കു കിട്ടാനില്ലാത്ത, കിട്ടാത്ത, വാങ്ങാൻകിട്ടാത്ത, പുതിയ പതിപ്പിറങ്ങാത്ത, കിട്ടാനില്ലാത്ത

Synonyms of out of print

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Questions about out of print

What does out of print mean?
Out of print means not available from the publisher (of a printed work, especially a book, or a music release).
What is out of print in Tamil?
Out of print in Tamil is பதிப்பில்லை, மறுபதிப்பில்லாத. See Out of print meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is out of print?
Out of print is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of print in the dictionary

  1. out of play
  2. out of plumb
  3. out of pocket
  4. out of practice
  5. out of preparation
  6. out of print
  7. out of process
  8. out of proportion
  9. out of question
  10. out of rack
  11. out of range

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: out of print (page history and authors); out of print (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); out of print (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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