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typesetter in Spanish

typesetter in Spanish is cajista — typesetter means someone whose job is to arrange letters and characters ready for printing, especially by hand in the past.

typesetter in Spanish

cajista
noun
(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

What does "typesetter" mean?

  1. noun Someone whose job is to arrange letters and characters ready for printing, especially by hand in the past.
    "My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters."
  2. noun A machine that arranges letters and characters in the right order so that a page can be printed.
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typesetter in a sentence

  • My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.

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What is "typesetter" in Spanish?
"typesetter" in Spanish is cajista. typesetter means: Someone whose job is to arrange letters and characters ready for printing, especially by hand in the past.
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