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Definition of Government printing office
1. Noun. An agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government.
Generic synonyms: Agency, Authority, Bureau, Federal Agency, Government Agency, Office
Group relationships: Legislative Branch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Government Printing Office
Literary usage of Government printing office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Access EPA: Public Information Tools (1994)
"... (GPO) Address: US government printing office 710 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20401 Public Contact: Office of Public Affairs Telephone: (202) ..."
2. The American Government by Frederick Jennings Haskin (1911)
"The aggregate work of the government printing office during a single year is vast
in its proportions. In 1910 it set up more than a million pages of type, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"Pretoria: government printing office, 1903, 1904. 3. Despatch transmitting Letters
Patent and Order in Council providing for Constitutional Changes in the ..."