publishing

noun

pub·lish·ing ˈpə-bli-shiŋ

: the business or profession of the commercial production and issuance of literature, information, musical scores or sometimes recordings, or art

newspaper publishing

software publishing

Examples of publishing in a Sentence

He was hoping to get a job in publishing after college. Her sister works for a well-known publishing company.

Recent Examples on the Web

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In publishing, its Warner Chappell division has three of its writers up for the songwriter of the year Grammy — Jessi Alexander, Raye, and of course Amy Allen, who was named Hitmakers songwriter of the year. —

Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024 The finalists for the 2024 publishing year will be announced Jan. 23, 2025, and awards will be presented March 20 — which will mark the 50th time the awards have been bestowed. —

Rachel Raposas, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024 Radical Optimism is the first album Lipa has released since striking a deal with TaP Music, her former management and publishing group, to acquire ownership of her songs, music, masters and publishing rights. —

Thomas Smith, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024 The partnership will allow Scale AI to publicly showcase its capabilities, and perhaps attract a new cohort of digital publishing clients, Scale AI chief strategy officer Jason Droege told Axios. —

Sara Fischer, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for publishing

Word History

Etymology

Middle English publisching "act of announcing, public declaration, issuing of copies of a book," from gerund of publisshen "to make known, publish"

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of publishing was in the 15th century

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