publishing empire
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈpʌblɪʃɪŋ ˈɛmpaɪər/
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- They know how to sell magazines, and you can go buy it to support their publishing empire.
- build a publishing empire
Journalism was part of the DC Thompson Publishing empire.
- Journalism was part of the DC Thompson Publishing empire.
Examples
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Her father was the co-founder of the publishing empire that changed the industry.
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I've also just started a very understated blog at my life coaching site (which is hard to even find at this point), but I'm planning to put it all together eventually and create a vast publishing empire that will inspire millions of folks, send me all the clients I'd care to see, and make a few bucks to keep me in coffee, cabernet, and cupcakes.
Blog text (25) -
His dad owned a publishing empire.
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With a little help from, uh, your friend and mine, ...she now owns the largest publishing empire in Europe.
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And Joni with her thing, and Walt with his publishing empire...
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We watched Charles Foster Kane, the young crusader, build his publishing empire.
Fiction book (1991) -
--Times-Lofton Publishing empire, founded by her grandfather in 1 876.
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Above the Law is developing into a legal publishing empire, with streams on BigLaw, small firms, in-house, law schools, and legal technology.
Academic text (2011) -
If you are a person who blogs, then the Blogger license is for you—whether you are sharing memories, launching passionate discussions, or building the next one-woman publishing empire.
Blog text (28) -
After years of hard work, she finally built a successful publishing empire that spans several countries.
Synonyms
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3.9
A group of businesses that one person or group owns and controls
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7.0
A large company made by joining several different companies in many industries
A large company that owns many smaller companies making books and magazines and runs them together
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a large conglomerate of publishing companies' is directly derivable from combining 'publishing' (relating to the print/media business) with 'empire' (a large business group). This noun-noun compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Publishing empire paints a picture of an 'empire' ruled by one person, but instead of countries the ruler controls magazines, newspapers and websites. The word publishing names the businesses and empire shows they are all under one owner, so the phrase means 'a large group of publishing companies owned or controlled by one person or company'.