offprint
- noun
- /ˈɔfˌprɪnt/
- Archaic
:
reimpresión
- The researcher was thrilled to receive several offprints of her published articles for distribution to colleagues.
Examples
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Most journals pay their contributors in offprints rather than in cash.
Academic text (1997) -
As a temporary, I spent my days keeping track of offprints from medical journals, answering requests for the Heart Institute's own publications, and cleaning out the primitive photocopier.
Academic text (2004) -
This essay appeared as an offprint of that letter, was widely circulated in elite circles, and is sufficiently unsparing of Spain's political reality to merit publication here.
Academic text (1994) -
Two weeks later, Walker received a manila envelope containing an article offprint, an ancient pocket volume of field notes, and seventeen beautifully preserved, glossy, black-and-white photographs that Parsons had taken on the trip.
Academic text (2002) -
Suddenly, I had a vision of the guys on the corner shouting, "Periwinkle's doin' it!" and "We gots cornflower!" Maybe I could scrounge up an offprint of "A System of Color Identification for Bibliographical Description."
Fiction book (2002) -
He carefully placed the offprint of his latest study in his portfolio to share at the conference.
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Each author was given thirty complimentary offprints of their articles to share with family and friends.
Synonyms
5
3.9
A single article printed on its own after it first appeared in a journal
1
8.4
A copy of an article printed on its own from a book or journal
A printed copy of an article that comes from a larger book or journal
How Common
- Jargon
1
3.8
724
2.5
5
3.9
- Archaic
- Specialized
1
7.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word offprint comes from off- meaning 'away' or 'separate' and print meaning 'to make copies on paper'. So an offprint is a part of a book or journal that was 'printed off' by itself and given out as a separate copy.