Definition of printery in English:
printery
nounPlural printeries ˈprɪnt(ə)riˈprɪn(t)əri
A printing works.
Example sentencesExamples
- This always turned out to be a costly mistake for them, because this printery employed highly inefficient and obsolete methods with very high overheads.
- Its operations were subsequently taken over by the Australian Workers Union, which built the weekly into the leading Sydney newspaper with a large Sydney printery.
- The son of a country policeman, Archibald grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria, where he was apprenticed in the printery of the local paper and conceived an ambition to be a journalist.
- We lived on a little fruit farm one mile from the printery at which the typesetting and press work were done.
- Built in 1942, it was used as a printery of the Roman Catholic Mission and later a tannery and private home.
Definition of printery in US English:
printery
nounˈprin(t)ərēˈprɪn(t)əri
A print shop.
Example sentencesExamples
- The son of a country policeman, Archibald grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria, where he was apprenticed in the printery of the local paper and conceived an ambition to be a journalist.
- This always turned out to be a costly mistake for them, because this printery employed highly inefficient and obsolete methods with very high overheads.
- Built in 1942, it was used as a printery of the Roman Catholic Mission and later a tannery and private home.
- We lived on a little fruit farm one mile from the printery at which the typesetting and press work were done.
- Its operations were subsequently taken over by the Australian Workers Union, which built the weekly into the leading Sydney newspaper with a large Sydney printery.