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out-of-print
[ out-uhv-print ]
adjective
- being no longer published; no longer printed or reprinted:
a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.
noun
- a book, pamphlet, etc., that is no longer published.
Word History and Origins
Origin of out-of-print1
Example Sentences
Long out of print, the catalog for the exhibition will be republished in an expanded 30th anniversary edition later this fall.
She published the first of three “Central Casting” volumes in 1988, but it is out of print.
It is long out of print, but I found a copy, and was thumbing through it when we spoke.
The book is out of print, but used copies are available on Amazon.
When she died in 1965, most of her books were out of print.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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