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publication has definitions from the fields of business,printing,writing
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[ noun ] (writing) a printed work offered for distribution

Used in print

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

Practical management problems and their suggested solutions are dealt with in a series of SBA publications .

These publications , written especially for the managers or owners of small businesses , indirectly aid in community development programs .

Small_Business_Administration , What It Is , What It Does , SBA Services for Community_Economic_Development , and various other useful publications on currently important management , technical production , and marketing topics are available , on_request , from Small_Business_Administration , Washington 25 , D.C. .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

There are even publications called Sick and Mad .

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work book magazine volume periodical reissue new_edition collection dope_sheet reference tip_sheet read impression republication text artwork cartoon contents spread format print

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[ noun ] (printing,business) the act of issuing printed materials

Synonyms

issue

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted 's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820 .

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

But both were high-spirited and vivacious , both had tempers to control , both loved languages , especially English and German , both were good teachers and wrote for publication .

(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)

These things have been disseminated by other means , but always in the wake of extensive publication of analytic results .

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

I was at_least conscious of the distinction in my full Yokuts presentation that awaits publication , in which , in listing ' Two_Stem_Meanings ' , I set_off by asterisks those forms in which n of stem B was * * f of stem A_3 , the unasterisked ones standing_for * * f ; or under ' Four_Stems ' , I set_off by asterisks cases where the combined n of stems * * f was * * f .

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printing print publish

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[ noun ] (business) the business of publishing

Synonyms

publishing

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commercial_enterprise serialization contribution desktop_publishing republication headline index publish

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Phonetic and Homophones

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