pressrun

[ pres-ruhn ]

noun

1. the running running of a printing press for a specific job:

   The pressrun will take about an hour.

2. the quantity that is run:

   a pressrun of more than 5000.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pressrun¹

First recorded in 1955–60; press ¹ + run

Example Sentences

The pugnacious French-British entrepreneur spent more than $ 1 million on promotion, and the initial pressrun of 416,000 copies was a sellout.

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The New York Times devoted its first seven pages to the story and upped its pressrun by 180,000, to 1.16 million.

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The paper will have a strikingly modern design, an initial pressrun of 200,000 and, perhaps, a hauntingly familiar name: the Trib.

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But how many actually made the trip remained a secret, although the day the Mirror died, Flynn announced a pressrun increase of 400,000 copies.

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Shortly after the beginning of the state of emergency, plainclothes security police invaded the printing plant of the liberal Weekly Mail and tried to halt its pressrun.

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