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printing press en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. A mechanical device used for printing text or images repeatedly.
   • Lenin constantly repeated that the 'so-called freedom of the Press' was a bourgeois deceit, like freedom of assembly and the right to form parties, since in a bourgeois society the common people had no printing presses and no rooms in which to assemble. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487:
2. (metonymically) Synonym of printing house (“an institutional or commercial publisher”).

Forms

Deriveds

printing-press money

Synonyms

press · printworks · printing house

Translations (78)

et trükimasin (machine for printing) · th แท่นพิมพ์ (machine for printing) · ur مَطْبَعَہ (machine for printing) · fa-ira چاپِ فِشاری (machine for printing) · pa ਛਾਪਾਖ਼ਾਨਾ (machine for printing) · gd beart-chlò (machine for printing) · hu nyomógép (machine for printing) · sq makinë shtypi (machine for printing) · id mesin cetak (machine for printing) · tr baskı presi (machine for printing) · hi मुद्रणालय (machine for printing) · fi painokone (machine for printing) · mk печатарска машина (machine for printing) · fr presse (machine for printing) · hi छापेख़ाना (machine for printing) · cs tiskový stroj (machine for printing) · is prentvél (machine for printing) · nl drukpers (machine for printing) · da trykpresse (machine for printing) · sk tlačiareň (machine for printing) · az çap dəzgahı (machine for printing) · ru типогра́фский стано́к (machine for printing) · mww lub tshuab nias ntawv (machine for printing) · cy gwasg argraffu (machine for printing) · sh штампарска машина (machine for printing) · nb trykkpresse (machine for printing) · hi प्रेस (machine for printing) · hu sajtó (machine for printing) · cmn 印刷機 /印刷机 (machine for printing) · eo presmaŝino (machine for printing) · ar آلَةُ الطِّبَاعَة (machine for printing) · nn trykkpresse (machine for printing) · lv iespiedmašīna (machine for printing) · hy տպագրահաստոց (machine for printing) · ur چھاپا خانَہ (machine for printing) · lt spaudos presas (machine for printing) · fr machine à imprimer (machine for printing) · ru печа́тный пресс (machine for printing) · cs tiskárna (machine for printing) · et trükipress (machine for printing) · ga clóphreas (machine for printing) · uk друка́рський верста́т (machine for printing) · pt imprensa (machine for printing) · hi छापाख़ाना (machine for printing) · el πιεστήριο (machine for printing) · sh тискарски строј (machine for printing) · lt spausdinimo presas (machine for printing) · sco prentin press (machine for printing) · ar آلَةُ طِبَاعَة (machine for printing) · es imprenta (machine for printing) · gl prelo (machine for printing) · lv drukas spiede (machine for printing) · ru печа́тная маши́на (machine for printing) · sv tryckpress (machine for printing) · sl tiskarski stroj (machine for printing) · it torchio (machine for printing) · ka სტამბა (machine for printing) · be друка́рскі варшта́т (machine for printing) · ko 인쇄기 (machine for printing) · sh štamparska mašina (machine for printing) · mn хэвлэх машин (machine for printing) · sh tiskarski stroj (machine for printing) · ru печа́тный стано́к (machine for printing) · gl imprenta (machine for printing) · el τυπογραφικό πιεστήριο (machine for printing) · aii ܡܲܛܒ݂ܲܥܬܵܐ (machine for printing) · pl maszyna drukarska (machine for printing) · hu nyomdagép (machine for printing) · vi máy in ép (machine for printing) · tr baskı makinesi (machine for printing) · tr matbaa (machine for printing) · de Druckerpresse (machine for printing) · ro presă de tipărit (machine for printing) · ms mesin cetak (machine for printing) · ja 印刷機 (machine for printing) · tl palimbagan (machine for printing) · tl limbagan (machine for printing) · gd clò (machine for printing)

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