Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who operates a printing press.
  • noun Chiefly British A newspaper reporter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is engaged in pressing; specifically, one who attends to a wine-press.
  • noun One who operates or has charge of a printing-press; specifically, a printer who does press-work; one who runs a hand-press, or who manages a press or presses run by steam or other power.
  • noun In journalism, sometimes, a man employed on the press; a writer or reporter for a newspaper.
  • noun One of a press-gang who aids in forcing men into military or naval service.
  • noun A man impressed into the public service, as the army or navy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
  • noun One who presses clothes.
  • noun One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun someone who operates a printing press
  • noun a journalist or newspaper reporter
  • noun one who pressgangs people into naval service

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
  • noun someone whose occupation is printing

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Examples

  • In the United States a pressman is a man who runs a printing press; in England he is a newspaper reporter, or, as the English usually say, a journalist.

    Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921

  • Between the compositor and the pressman is a long road in which many a book is spoiled, but the responsibility is hard to place.

    The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898

  • SWEENEY: And if you were in the Chief of Staff, the new Chief of Staff now, James Rubin, who would you be considering or what kind of pressman would you be looking for to take over Scott McClellan's role?

    CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2006 2006

  • In the editorial office of the Kansas City newspaper where he served his apprenticeship, there was a kind of pressman's catechism, the first dictum of which was: «Use short sentences.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 - Presentation Speech 1954

  • For any 'pressman' that think they know how to solve the problem, odds are you probably never did the Intaglio work.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • For any 'pressman' that think they know how to solve the problem, odds are you probably never did the Intaglio work.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • As I once said to a pressman who observed that we were winning, but without firing on all cylinders, 'What do you want ... blood?'

    Alex Ferguson says Manchester United will be well primed for Barcelona 2011

  • Montgomery, James (1771 – 1854): brought up a Moravian, Montgomery became a dissenting radical pressman, imprisoned in 1796 for publishing political articles critical of the government in the paper he edited, the Sheffield

    Index of People 2009

  • "I get something to do, and they get a service free," said Moyer, a former pressman for National Geographic and other magazines until his printing company went out of business.

    Fight over Montgomery County ambulance fee continues Michael Laris 2010

  • Earlier in his career, Mr. Higgins had been a pressman for The Washington Post.

    Paul L. Higgins, corrections officer Post 2011

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