Meaning of stop press | Babel Free

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The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.

UK

Examples

“1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=C64iQVqCm3MC&pg=RA1-PR51&lpg=RA1-PR51&sig=JpcrTaGG5EdPxJjr2U8VwuilsEw Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections …”

“Faked Stop⟳ Press⟳! announcements in newspapers. A valuable trick⟳ because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’. It is also easy to fake the printing of the Stop⟳ Press⟳.”

“2005, Mary Norway, The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw⟳ It, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kdp6DLzb6KcC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&sig=TWkyRKxWPtmbwiGPh_BvuIQNwlA Another lady thought she would drive⟳ a lesson home, so she said: “But you said it was a ‘Stop⟳ press⟳,’ and you knew it was not.” “It is, miss⟳, but sure they hadn’t time to print⟳ the ‘stop⟳ press⟳’ on it!!” (“Stop⟳ press⟳” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.)”

“STOP⟳ PRESS⟳: As this issue⟳ of RAIL went to press⟳, the RMT announced that it too would be taking strike⟳ action on the Tube on March⟳ 15”

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