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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 runs
  2. Print Screen
  3. Print Screens
  4. print server
  5. print servers
  6. print shop
  7. print shops
  8. print up
  9. print wheel
  10. print wheels
  11. print-disabled

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