printing business

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meaningsofprintingandbusiness

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printing
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.tɪŋ/us
/ˈprɪn.t̬ɪŋ/
the activity or business of producing writing or images on paper or other material with ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofprintingandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprinting business

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He was running a bigprintingbusiness, and when prohibition first came in he said it was the very finest thing they could possibly have.
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You seize his little paper, but you also destroy hisprintingbusiness, employing 100 printers, who are supporting three or four hundred people.
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He had a very smallprintingbusinessand drew a derisory salary for himself.
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They spring from the printers being desirous to canalise into a trade already over-burdened with demand, all theprintingbusinessthey can get.
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I had experience of this myself when connected with an embryoprintingbusinesstwo years ago.
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He was to continue his bookselling andprintingbusiness, but his newspaper has not resumed publication.
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The family business grew into aprintingbusiness, a publisher specializing in marine subjects, a bookshop and other businesses.
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Upon graduation, he entered theprintingbusinessfor a short time.
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Balzac borrowed money from his family and friends, and tried to build aprintingbusiness, then a typefounder enterprise.
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The newspaper's publishing company also operates a commercialprintingbusiness.
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She later taught vocational-education graphic arts and operated her ownprintingbusiness, retiring in 1988.
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His father ran aprintingbusinessthat was subject to graft and demands for kickbacks from purchasing agents.
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His father owned aprintingbusiness, which was confiscated from the family in 1948 after the communist takeover.
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The advanced equipment enabled him to also operate aprintingbusiness.
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They had recently started aprintingbusiness, and local merchants asked them to do a local newspaper.
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Gradually, as his fame spread, his healing took over from hisprintingbusiness, which was later to be run by a brother.
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She would not get back into the publishing business again but ran a smallprintingbusinessin the 1950s.
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Recreation continued alongside aprintingbusiness, which was established in the grounds in 1923.
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In 1949, he started his ownprintingbusiness.
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In 1904, he established a commercialprintingbusiness.
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