Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

printworker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: print-work-er
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.

Example Sentences

"Of particular interest is the minimum earning guarantee which, in 1997, meant that a class III printworker was guaranteed to earn at least £182.70 for a basic working week."
"Long before being bitten by the writing bug, Mark began his professional life as a printworker, an experience which was to serve him well."
"That defeat of the miners in the mid-1980s – combined with other defeats of unions, most notably the printworkers at Wapping – was intended to offer a salutary lesson […]"
"George Ewart Markes Lattimer was my great-great-grandfather, a Victorian printworker, born in 1850 or 1851 […]."

Etymology

From print + worker.

Inflected Forms

printworkers (plural) print-worker (alternative) print worker (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

printer printmaker

Questions

What does printworker mean?: A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.
Where does printworker come from?: From print + worker.

How to pronounce printworker

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