Dictionary

printshop en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹɪnt.ʃɒp/ (UK)

Etymology

From print + shop.

Meanings

1. A shop that sells prints.
   • He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
2. (Canada, US) A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
3. (uncommon) Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
   • As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263:

Forms

Synonyms

copy shop (shop that makes prints to order) · printseller's (shop that sells prints) · printing house · printseller (shop that sells prints)