publishing firm
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈpʌblɪʃɪŋ fɜrm/
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editorial
- Since the idea of moving back home and facing her friends and family was unthinkable, she took a job at a hot new publishing firm in hopes of building a better life for herself.
- a new publishing firm
And eventually a publishing firm gets a gets an incomplete copy of his, his rough drafts, George Allen and Unwin.
- And eventually a publishing firm gets a gets an incomplete copy of his, his rough drafts, George Allen and Unwin.
Examples
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I'm going to start an old-fashioned publishing firm, one that doesn't even bear my name.
Fiction book (1998) -
Canadian publishing conglomerate Thomson owns West, and Dutch publishing firm Reed Elsevier now owns LexisNexis.
Academic text (2004) -
It's not about developing your craft over years of work with an agent or editor at a publishing firm.
Blog text (2) -
I own a paper mill and a printing business... and a couple of book-publishing firms.
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He works for a publishing firm, Brady & Company.
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The next year, however, the publishing firm went under, and Olmsted was sunk along with it.
Academic text (2011) -
Tess, how many freshmen do you know with jobs at top publishing firms, their transfer's taken care of, places to live, how many?
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He was, by profession, a partner in a publishing firm, and shortly before his arrival here, he had gone to negotiate with Walter Rockett for the purchase of his golfing reminiscences.
Fiction book (1998) -
When Diana Foxton took a job at a Manhattan publishing firm, she found herself caught up in a real-life passion plot more sizzling than the pages of an erotic novel.
Fiction book (2002) -
I work as an editor in my family's publishing firm.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person or company that prepares and sells books and magazines
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3.2
A company that makes and sells books, magazines or journals
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2.6
A business that makes books, magazines, or newspapers and sells them
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a company engaged in publishing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'publishing' (the business of preparing printed materials) with 'firm' (a company). This noun-noun compound follows a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound publishing firm gives a simple picture: publishing means making books or magazines and sending them out to the public, and a firm is a company that sells things. That's why it means 'a company that makes and sells books, magazines, or newspapers'.