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PUBLISHING HOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does publishing house mean?
• PUBLISHING HOUSE (noun)
The noun PUBLISHING HOUSE has 1 sense:
1. a firm in the publishing business
Familiarity information: PUBLISHING HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 house" 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 house"):
newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper (a business firm that publishes newspapers)
magazine; magazine publisher (a business firm that publishes magazines)
Context examples
You will please note that we have increased your royalties to twenty per cent, which is about as high as a conservative publishing house dares go.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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