What is "compositors"

Usage examples of "compositors".

Foreman compositors, advertisement clerks, and other members of the noneditorial staff, who had, of course, taken no part in the great trek, found it as impossible to get into direct communication with the editor and his satellites now that they had returned as when they had been excusably inaccessible in Central Asia.

There was no end of compositors and reporters who wanted to come, to say nothing of experienced valets, chefs, and stewards.

He thought he detected a possible newsagent, two under-graduates, three Government school teachers, compositors, shopkeepers, a writing bloke or two, and several nondescripts who might be anything from artists to itinerant hawkers.