printworker en · NOUN
Etymology
From print + worker.
Meanings
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A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.
That defeat of the miners in the mid-1980s – combined with other defeats of unions, most notably the printworkers at Wapping – was intended to offer a salutary lesson […]
2022 October 11, Owen Jones, “From barristers to bin collectors, strikers are working to empower us all”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2026:Of particular interest is the minimum earning guarantee which, in 1997, meant that a class III printworker was guaranteed to earn at least £182.70 for a basic working week.
1999 May 14, Mark Andrew Stuart, Skill Formation and Restructuring within the UK Printing Industry, Leeds University Business School, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2025:George Ewart Markes Lattimer was my great-great-grandfather, a Victorian printworker, born in 1850 or 1851 […].
2022 December 28, Anoosh Chakelian, “In my great-great-grandfather’s poetry, I glimpse the Britain I report on today”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2025:Long before being bitten by the writing bug, Mark began his professional life as a printworker, an experience which was to serve him well.
2012 August 31, Jason Holmes, “Mark Baxter: Backing A Winner”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| printworkers | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| print-worker | alternative | lexicographic | |
| print worker | alternative | lexicographic |