composing room

noun

: the department in a printing office where typesetting and related operations are performed

Example Sentences

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Gary’s father was a Journal pressman and his grandfather arranged lead type in the Journal composing room. —George Stanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2022

My father, Kevin O’Leary, worked in the Globe composing room almost his entire career, first as a linotype operator and later as a paste-up artist. —BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022

He was later promoted to chief makeup editor, and worked in the composing room at the paper’s North Calvert Street building until retiring in 1987. —Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 10 Jan. 2022

As news editor, typically a high-ranking position overseeing story selection, copy editing and page design, Gregory had the ability to move comfortably from the newsroom to the composing room to the circulation department. —John Pope, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021

The father of UMass president Martin T. Meehan worked in the composing room of the Lowell Sun newspaper for 43 years and looked just like Carroll O’Connor, the actor who played Archie. —David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021

And running to the composing room at deadline, and below, in the subbasements, the great printing presses rolling. —John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018

Charles Lyn Downey, who worked in The Times-Picayune's composing room for 47 years, died May 23 of multiple myeloma at Passages Hospice & Sanctuary in New Orleans. —John Pope, NOLA.com, 1 June 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1737, in the meaning defined above