typesetter

[ tahyp-set-er ]
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noun
  1. a person who sets or composes type; compositor.

  2. a typesetting machine.

Origin of typesetter

1
First recorded in 1825–35; type + setter

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How to use typesetter in a sentence

  • To his nephew, Sam Moffett, visiting him one day, he declared that it would take ten men to count the profits from the typesetter.

  • If he didn't have that big typesetter from Albany over at the Banner office to back him up I'd go over an' bust his snoot fer him.

    The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheon
  • The foreman, without answering, scribbled press on a corner of the sheet and made a sign to a typesetter.

    Ulysses | James Joyce
  • Errors in the Index, obvious and simple enough to be assumed typesetter's errors, have been corrected.

  • He stayed in his walk to watch a typesetter neatly distributing type.

    Ulysses | James Joyce

British Dictionary definitions for typesetter

typesetter

/ (ˈtaɪpˌsɛtə) /


noun
  1. a person who sets type; compositor

  2. a typesetting machine

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