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printing presses

printing presses is the plural of printing press.

Meaning of printing press

Noun

printing press (plural printing presses)

  1. A mechanical device used for printing text or images repeatedly.
    • Lenin constantly repeated that the 'so-called freedom of the Press' was a bourgeois deceit, like freedom of assembly and the right to form parties, since in a bourgeois society the common people had no printing presses and no rooms in which to assemble.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
  2. (metonymically) Synonym of printing house (“an institutional or commercial publisher”).

Questions about printing presses

What is printing presses the plural of?
Printing presses is the plural of printing press.

Words near printing presses in the dictionary

  1. printing money
  2. printing out
  3. printing paper
  4. printing papers
  5. printing press
  6. printing presses
  7. printing roll
  8. printing rolls
  9. printing shop
  10. printing shops
  11. printing telegraph

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