Government Printing Office
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4.8
- proper noun
- Formal
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Oficina de Impresión del Gobierno
- In 1861, the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) opened its doors, providing access to the country's most important documents.
Examples
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The final pamphlet will be available through the United States Government Printing Office for a nominal fee.
Academic text (1995) -
Section 1301 of H.R. 83, establishing appropriations for 2015, states, "The Government Printing Office is hereby redesigned as the Government Publishing Office."
Academic text (2015) -
Your stationery is printed by the Government Printing Office.
Fiction book (1993) -
As a veteran of the department, I can share many stories about the Government Printing Office's role in publishing Congressional materials.
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The 2010 budget report was printed by the Government Printing Office and distributed across the federal departments.
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Each year, the Government Printing Office produced millions of documents for the legislative branch and other federal agencies.
Synonyms
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A government office that prints official documents for Congress and federal agencies
A former U.S. government agency that printed and bound official documents for Congress and other federal offices
A former government office that made and put together official United States documents for Congress and federal departments
Surface Forms
Morphology
government + printing + office
The name is transparently compositional: 'government' + 'printing' + 'office' clearly describes an official office run by the government that handles printing (and related binding) tasks. This kind of noun-noun composition is common across languages and follows regular semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the agency’s basic function.
Etymology
The Government Printing Office was the U.S. government's large workshop where workers literally 'printed' and put together laws, reports, and other official papers for Congress. So the words Government, Printing, and Office show it was the government's place for printing official documents.