Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A printing-office in which only job-work is done.
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Examples
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Mr. Kilburn, recognizing the acknowledged merits of our job-office, had given us the contract for all the printing he needed in New Centreville.
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Henry George's career as a writer should be dated from the commencement of 1865, when he was an irregular, substitute printer at Eastman's and on the daily newspapers, just after his severe job-office experience.
Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Various 1918
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I worked in that little job-office in Keokuk as much as two years, I should say, without ever collecting a cent of wages, for Orion was never able to pay anything -- but Dick Higham and I had good times.
Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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On account of charging next to nothing for the work done in his job-office, he had almost nothing to do there.
Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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One of these efforts Mr. Parton thus describes, in his _Life of Horace Greeley: _ "An incident connected with the job-office of
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862
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