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print-shop

print-shop is the alternative form of printshop.

Meaning of printshop

Noun

printshop (plural printshops)

  1. A shop that sells prints.
    • He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    printseller, printseller's, copy shop
  2. (Canada, US) A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
  3. (uncommon) Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
    • As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263
    Synonyms:
    printing house

Forms of print-shop

pluralprint-shops

Questions about print-shop

What is print-shop the alternative form of?
Print-shop is the alternative form of printshop.

Words near print-shop in the dictionary

  1. print-off
  2. print-offs
  3. print-on-demand
  4. print-out
  5. print-outs
  6. print-shop
  7. print-shops
  8. print-through
  9. print-wheel
  10. print-wheels
  11. print-worthy

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