0 a person whose job is to arrange the letters, words, sentences, etc. of a book or a magazine before it is printed
Fifty compositors were busily setting up a book which the ordinance of the government had decisively forbidden under heavy penalties.
He could not earn much as a compositor, but his wants were simple and he could earn something.
He soon mastered the compositor's art, became a remarkably rapid composer.
I found the editor and his compositor labouring over the next edition of the paper.
The letters, two W's, were so skilfully entwined, that even a compositor—and compositors are people who can read almost anything—would have been puzzled to decipher it.
Strange guardians of the arcane, compositors got by, but have been swept aside by a new world.
On the other hand, contains a compositor.
For many printers, compositors and others who work in the printing trade, it is the custom to refer to a magazine as a book.
