press run
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5.6
- noun
- Specialized
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tirada
- In contrast, on Nov. 8, 1876, the press run of the daily New York Sun was 220,000.
Examples
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His father was putting the newspaper to bed after this week's press run.
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Jeff Aronhalt checks the quality of the print during a midweek press run of the Arizona Daily Star.
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The press run was over by four.
Fiction book (1994) -
It was recently reported that the average press run of academic works in history is in the low hundreds.
Academic text (2002) -
We'd get to work at twelve, in case of an early press run, and play Tri-Ominos until we got the call.
Fiction book (1995) -
The white student who shouts, "Shut up, you water buffalo," is charged with racial harassment, but the black students who steal and then destroy an entire press run of the student newspaper are not even reprimanded; the white Jewish professor who refers to himself and black students as "former slaves"
Academic text (1997) -
Published with a press run of 1,500, in an 8 1/2" by 11" format, the blue-covered volumes provided teachers with a thematic background to the major doctrines of the Bill of Rights, supported by case materials.
Academic text (1991) -
Book publishers are reluctant to accept manuscripts except for those that have educational value (i.e., textbooks); they have also been forced to reduce first edition press runs from 100,000 to 10,000.
Academic text (1995) -
The initial press run will be 25,000 copies.
Synonyms
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3.7
The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the period during which a press is operated to produce an issue' is directly derivable from combining 'press' (printing machine) with 'run' (a run/period of operation). This noun–noun compound follows a common compositional pattern (production run) that a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer.
Etymology
Press run comes from the picture of a printing press running to make a run of copies. So it means the time the press works to print a 'batch' of papers or the copies made then.