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reprint

reprint

5 3.7
A book or article printed again without changes
  • noun
  • /ˈriːprɪnt/
translation icon : reimpresión
  • Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. 1974. Reprint, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
  • reprint requests

Things Mark has going on, one is he's got a book now, I think it's a reprint from his first book, but The Primal Blueprint, this is a book I read.

Examples

  • It's a reprint from the catalogue of the 1957 show in London.

  • Robohunter is an old Titan Books reprint I bought back in the 1980s.

    Blog text (20)
  • And this is also a reprint, but I guess it's still like the first edition perhaps.

  • We have a reprint of one of his papers that appeared in an Australian journal.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Pocket Books issued a reprint in 1998.

    Academic text (2015)
  • I do not know if there was any other reprint of those sermons in America.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The most striking chapter in The British Way in Warfare is a reprint of an essay.

    Academic text (1990)
  • In 1917, Hachette issued a reprint of its Guides-Joanne to Paris.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The first reprints of newspaper strips in tabloid size happened in 1929.

  • The library has a special section for classic literature that includes a reprint of "Pride and Prejudice."

Synonyms

reissue
vsreprint
8 4.0

A book or music album released again, usually without changes

is limited to printed items republished unchanged rather than other media
republication
vsreprint
1 6.2

Making a book or article available to readers again as a new edition

is restricted to printed items issued again without edits or changes
reprinting
vsreprint
1 3.2

A book or other work made again in the same form and sold

is the common short form used for the same printed item
separate
vsreprint
  • Jargon
1 8.4

A copy of an article printed on its own from a book or journal

focuses only on articles taken from bigger works rather than all printed items
offprint
vsreprint
  • Archaic
9.2

A copy of an article printed separately from a book or journal

refers to items printed again unchanged for general release rather than original separate prints

How Revised

to rework
30 4.0
revise
1 3.9
to republish
11 4.2
to reissue
12 4.4
reprint
5 3.7

Surface Forms

reprint singular
reprints plural

Morphology

reprint = reprint (transparent) = re + print

The noun is a straightforward result noun formed by conversion from the verb 'reprint'.

Etymology

Reprint comes from the part re- meaning 'again' and the word print meaning 'to make copies on paper'. So a reprint is a book or article that has been printed again without changes.