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- noun Plural form of
pressman .
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Examples
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Additionally, many employees, such as pressmen, truck drivers, maintenance workers, etc. are likely to lose their jobs upon reorganization…
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Orders were given that only members of the party should be admitted to Kilmany Park, and the detectives exercised a close supervision, though some pressmen managed to find the “Open Sesame” for the day, including that most pushing and capable of the press photographers, who represents the “Australasian.”
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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He had never received a sign of the existence of one, and from absence of judgment in rejecting all he wrote it seemed plausible that editors were myths, manufactured and maintained by office boys, typesetters, and pressmen.
Chapter 24 2010
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The problem is finding an effective middle order in subcontinental conditions and, despite Monty's protestations, the England batsmen were only in a "good place" on Mondaybecause they were not plonked down in front of a load of old pressmen trying to fathom out why they cannot score any runs.
Monty Panesar puts good spin on potential of partnering Graeme Swann 2012
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Buying paper, reporters, photographers, layout people, pressmen, housing those employees; it gets to be very costly.
American Shopping Leads Companies to Bankruptcy | myFiveBest 2009
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I believe most newspapers that are migrating to online, whether gradually a la the NYT or overnight like the Post-Intelligencer, are doing so with an axe in one hand cutting away large chunks of staff — reporters and editors as much as pressmen.
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On arrival in the chaos yesterday at the Yonggakdo Hotel, one of two (relatively) fancy ones in the capital, a senior minder handed over a blue armband with P in a circle, which pressmen, as we are called, are supposed to wear.
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When the word-processor replaced the typewriter, it became possible to decimate newspaper plants of copy editors and senior pressmen with buyouts and layoffs.
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Out by the barns the groups of pressmen had already formed round the trainers of the most fancied Derby runners.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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On arrival in the chaos yesterday at the Yonggakdo Hotel, one of two (relatively) fancy ones in the capital, a senior minder handed over a blue armband with P in a circle, which pressmen, as we are called, are supposed to wear.
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