bill poster
- noun
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afichador
- Although we might not expect a crowd to form and be transfixed by the seemingly mundane act of pasting up a printed poster, the Tribune reporter described a strikingly similar scene when he tagged along on a trip with a crew of Chicago bill posters.
Examples
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The caricature on the lower left of the group's secretary, Clarence E. Runey, furnishes yet another example of a bill poster with his signature long, broomlike brush, strengthening our identification of the man in Sloan's sketch.
Academic text (2011) -
The sketch also contains an intriguing visual repetition, in that the bill poster seems to be doubled by the right-hand figure in the bill he's pasting up, both of them wearing similar hats and positioned with virtually the same outstretched left arm.
Academic text (2011) -
The skilled bill-poster is an interesting object.
Academic text (2011) -
Connecting or conflating the painter and the bill poster would have thoroughly undermined the program that he was developing in his work at this time.
Academic text (2011) -
He bought the tickets from Itzkowitz, the bill-poster, on Friday afternoons.
Fiction book (1996) -
The second caricature of H. F. Schafer, also a group member, helps to further illuminate why the figure of the bill poster might have been of interest to Sloan at this time.
Academic text (2011) -
For example, a poster on the wall to the left bears the name of an estate agent, William (or Bill to his friends), with the surname Poster: hence, Bill Poster (and, in the background of the painting, a bill poster goes about his business).
Academic text (1992) -
Itzkowitz, the bill-poster with his thick canvas knapsack, his pail of glue, and his big brush, had already gone inside.
Fiction book (1996) -
The bill poster carefully applied the new advertisement to the empty wall.
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As the bill poster worked, people admired how quickly he covered the posters.
Synonyms
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A person who puts up printed notices on walls or billboards
A person who puts up posters on walls or billboards
A person who sticks labels or posters onto things
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who pastes up bills or posters' is directly derivable from combining 'bill' (a printed advertisement) with 'poster' (one who affixes posters or the item posted); the compound denotes an agent associated with bills. This noun–noun compounding pattern is compositional and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun bill poster comes from the simple image of a worker carrying glue and paper to put up bills and posters on walls and boards. So bill poster now means 'a person who pastes up bills or posters on walls or billboards'.