printshop

noun — 3 senses

printshop

noun

UK /ˈpɹɪnt.ʃɒp/

Etymology From print + shop.

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:
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
printseller, printseller's, copy shop

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