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publisher
has definitions from the fields of writing,business,work
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[ noun ] (writing,business) a firm in the publishing business
Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Publishers want books that will sell , recording_studios want discs that will not seem strange to ears used_to hillbilly and jazz music , grade and high_schools want quaint , but moral , material . This has not , however , prevented publishers from labeling him a `` folk_poet '' , simply because he is a rural one . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)`` And in the future , since I write for a public of one , I can save the poor publishers from wasting their money '' . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` I am told that in America you have non books by non writers , brought_out by non publishers for non readers . |
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[ noun ] (work) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music
Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)I saw a piece the other day assailing William_Buckley , author of Man_And_God_At_Yale and publisher of the National_Review , as no conservative at_all , but an old liberal . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Arthur_Hays_Sulzberger has been a distinguished publisher of this distinguished newspaper and it is fitting that we take due notice of his major contribution to American journalism on the occasion of his retirement . Mr._Sulzberger 's successor as publisher is Mr._Orvil_E._Dryfoos , who is president of the New_York_Times_Co. , and who has been with the Times since 1942 . |
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[ noun ] (work,business) the proprietor of a newspaper
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