compositornoun [ C ]
uk/kəmˈpɒz.ɪ.tər/us/kəmˈpɑː.zɪ.t̬ɚ/a person whose job is to arrange the letters, words, sentences, etc. of a book or a magazine before it is printed
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Publishing: printing & word processing
- bed
- bold
- Braille
- bullet
- bullet point
- CMYK
- inline
- intaglio printing
- italic
- italicize
- italics
- landscape
- plate
- printer
- publish
- put sth to bed idiom
- reissue
- reprint
- roman
- sans serif
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People who work in publishing
Examples from literature
- Fifty compositors were busily setting up a book which the ordinance of the government had decisively forbidden under heavy penalties.
- He could not earn much as a compositor, but his wants were simple and he could earn something.
- He soon mastered the compositor's art, became a remarkably rapid composer.
- I found the editor and his compositor labouring over the next edition of the paper.
- The letters, two W's, were so skilfully entwined, that even a compositor—and compositors are people who can read almost anything—would have been puzzled to decipher it.