PUBLISHING FIRM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publishing firm mean? 

• PUBLISHING FIRM (noun)
  The noun PUBLISHING FIRM has 1 sense:

1. a firm in the publishing business

  Familiarity information: PUBLISHING FIRM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLISHING FIRM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A firm in the publishing business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house

Hypernyms ("publishing firm" is a kind of...):

business firm; firm; house (the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publishing firm"):

newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper (a business firm that publishes newspapers)

magazine; magazine publisher (a business firm that publishes magazines)

 Context examples 

Besides, that publishing firm did not own a magazine wherewith to make its claim less modest.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A person who edits material for publication; a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility for the editorial part of a publishing firm or of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; the supervisor or conductor of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.

(Editor, NCI Thesaurus)