US Government Printing Office
- proper noun
- Formal
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Oficina de Imprenta del Gobierno de EE. UU.
- -- US Bureau of the Census: Characteristics of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1990.
Examples
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M.E. Jarvik, et al., Research on Smoking Behavior, NIDA Research Monograph 17 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1977).
Academic text (2011) -
-- US Bureau of the Census: Current Population Survey. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2000.
Academic text (2009) -
The report on climate change was published by the US Government Printing Office in 2021.
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For accurate and official documents, you can refer to the US Government Printing Office for reliable publications.
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The US Government Printing Office played a vital role in distributing government material to various agencies.
Synonyms
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7.3
A government office that prints official documents for Congress and federal agencies
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4.8
A former U.S. agency that printed and bound official government documents
A former U.S. government agency that printed and bound official documents for Congress and other federal offices
Surface Forms
Morphology
US + government + printing + office
The meaning 'a United States government office responsible for printing official publications' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'US' (United States) + 'government' + 'printing' + 'office'. This is a straightforward noun-compound naming pattern for official agencies found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the MWE's function.
Etymology
US Government Printing Office started as a very literal name for the office that printed and bound papers for the United States government. Because it was the place that made the country's official books and reports, the name came to mean the government body that produced 'official publications', and it was later renamed the Government Publishing Office.