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pressman

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press=man

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pressman has 2 senses

pressman(n = noun.person) printer - someone whose occupation is printing; Array

has particulars: compositor, setter, typesetter, typographer, proofreader, reader, bodoni, gianbattista bodoni, bradford, william bradford, caxton, william caxton, benjamin franklin, franklin, frederic goudy, frederic william goudy, goudy, gutenberg, johann gutenberg, johannes gutenberg

is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker

pressman(n = noun.person) correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter - a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media; Array

has particulars: foreign correspondent, war correspondent

is a kind of journalist

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pressman, n.

One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press. [1913 Webster]
One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman. [1913 Webster]

pressman, n. [See 2d Press.].

One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pressman, n. (pl. -men)
1 a journalist.
2 an operator of a printing-press.

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