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Definition of Platemakers
1. platemaker [n] - See also: platemaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platemakers
Literary usage of Platemakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1994-1995 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Strippers cut the film to required size and arrange and tape the negatives
onto "flats," or layout sheets, used by platemakers to make press plates. ..."
2. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996-1997 by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"platemakers use a photographic process to make ... platemakers, who work with
toxic chemicals, face the hazard of skin irritations. ..."
3. The Trust Movement in British Industry: A Study of Business Organisation by Henry William Macrosty (1907)
"In the autumn an agreement was made with the platemakers of the North of England
not to sell in each other's territory, and with the cessation of needless ..."
4. The Electrical Engineer (1890)
"Fry and Co., the well-known platemakers of Chandos- street and Kingston-on-Thames,
are the wholesale agents. Besides the ingenious arrangement for repeating ..."
5. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"... casters, and platemakers of the Black country ; one is amazed at the bodily
strength these men will exercise for hours together. ..."
6. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1917)
"... and caused one of the ministers to cough violently, whereupon the guide
explained that the platemakers' departments were considered the most unhealthy ..."
7. The World's Food by Clyde Lyndon King (1917)
"Early in the present year there was a great scarcity of tin plate, owing to the
inability of platemakers to secure a supply of steel. ..."
8. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1994-1995 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Strippers cut the film to required size and arrange and tape the negatives
onto "flats," or layout sheets, used by platemakers to make press plates. ..."
9. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996-1997 by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"platemakers use a photographic process to make ... platemakers, who work with
toxic chemicals, face the hazard of skin irritations. ..."
10. The Trust Movement in British Industry: A Study of Business Organisation by Henry William Macrosty (1907)
"In the autumn an agreement was made with the platemakers of the North of England
not to sell in each other's territory, and with the cessation of needless ..."
11. The Electrical Engineer (1890)
"Fry and Co., the well-known platemakers of Chandos- street and Kingston-on-Thames,
are the wholesale agents. Besides the ingenious arrangement for repeating ..."
12. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"... casters, and platemakers of the Black country ; one is amazed at the bodily
strength these men will exercise for hours together. ..."
13. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1917)
"... and caused one of the ministers to cough violently, whereupon the guide
explained that the platemakers' departments were considered the most unhealthy ..."
14. The World's Food by Clyde Lyndon King (1917)
"Early in the present year there was a great scarcity of tin plate, owing to the
inability of platemakers to secure a supply of steel. ..."
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