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A person who sets type; a typesetter. / One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.

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compositor

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Source Word

compositor

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

A person who sets type; a typesetter. / One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.

Japanese Meaning

組版者：印刷物の組版（活字や版を組んで文章を作る作業）を行う人。 / タイポグラファー：印刷・出版に関わる組版作業を担当する職業の人。

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The compositor meticulously arranged each letter for the limited-edition book.

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活字職人は限定版の書籍のために一字一字を丹念に組版した。

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A person who sets type; a typesetter.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

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