Definition of Pressmen

1. Noun. (plural of pressman) ¹

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Definition of Pressmen

1. pressman [n] - See also: pressman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressmen

pressings
pressiometer
pression
pressions
pressirostral
pressitant
pressive
presskit
presskits
pressly
pressman
pressmark
pressmarks
pressmaster
pressmasters
pressmen (current term)
pressor
pressors
pressotherapy
presspack
presspacked
presspacking
presspacks
presspeople
pressperson
presspersons
pressroom
pressrooms
pressrun
pressruns

Literary usage of Pressmen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of by Wesley Washington Pasko (1894)
"In Berlin compositors receive $7.05 at the Government Office, while the commercial houses pay compositors $7.40, pressmen $7.40, and proof-readers $7.90. ..."

2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1915)
"58 The pressmen justified the extension of their jurisdiction mainly by three arguments. In the first place, competency rather than the nature of the ..."

3. Minutes of Evidence by Canada Royal Commission on Civil Service, Royal Commission on Civil Service, Canada, J. W. Nelligan (1908)
"Q. Do the pressmen in any of the outside offices in Ottawa have a vacation ? ... Q. Then, if holidays were given to pressmen in the Government Printing ..."

4. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"WEB pressmen The duties of the web or newspaper pressman differ materially from those of the ... Newspaper pressmen are provided with three classes of ..."

5. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1906)
"The history of the plumbing trades, the printing pressmen, the boiler makers, ... The recent controversy in t ne International Printing pressmen and ..."

6. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1905)
"The scale of wages shall be as follows: pressmen in charge, per week, six nights of six hours each $35 00 All other pressmen, per week, six nights of six ..."

7. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States by United States, William Adams Richardson, George Anderson King, William Bruce King, Edwin Charles Brandenburg (1891)
"... &c. men, carpenters, waste-paper examiners, and general-utility clerks, pressmen, mes- pressmen, messengers, watchmen, laborers, janitors, porters, ..."

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