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publishing firm

n. a firm in the publishing business [syn: publisher, publishing house, publishing company]

Usage examples of "publishing firm".

At this meeting, Gray learned that Goodfellow was employed by a book publishing firm.

Belbo replied that he was neither, but worked for a publishing firm that specialized in books on Arab metaphysics.

Belbo warned that just as the fisherman who casts his net could pull in empty shells and plastic bags, so Garamond Press might receive many manuscripts of dubious value, and that we were looking for a stern reader who would separate the wheat from the chaff, while also taking note of any curious by-products, because there was a friendly publishing firm that would be happy if we redirected less worthy authors to it.

Instead of carrying on in the family tradition in Honolulu, he had come to New York and accepted a position as a lowly accountant with the publishing firm known as Webb Press.

Shawcross quit at a time of his own choosing and began his own small publishing firm.

All right, Mister Smartaleck Dorn, if in one week you dont come to terms with me, good terms, you will be blacklisted in every reputable publishing firm in the United States and foreign parts.

When he left public school, he could have gone into the same publishing firm, but he did not want to spend his life in an office .

All right, Mister Smartaleck Dorn, if in one week you don't come to terms with me, good terms, you will be blacklisted in every reputable publishing firm in the United States and foreign parts.

The great publishing firm of Ticknor, Harcourt & Knopf contracted for my bookthere was no publisher in the United States equipped to handle itand sent me a sizable advance in Confederate dollars which became even more sizable converted into United States money.

The offices of Tym Waterdeep Limited, the most successful publishing firm in all Faerun, had been fraught with tension for several weeks.

Even the very rarest, a Bible published in 1651 by the London publishing firm of Bilton and Scaggs.