publisher
Pluralpublishers
- 1A person or, more often, a company that publishes material, especially books.
After twelve rejections, the author finally found a publisher willing to take a chance on her memoir.
As publisher of the town's weekly paper, he wrote most of the editorials himself.
Similarpress
- 2In software, a system or component that lets other components, called subscribers, receive notifications of something such as an event.
The order service acts as a publisher, emitting an event whenever a customer completes a purchase.
Each subscriber registers with the publisher and is notified when new sensor data arrives.
Similarproducer
Oppositesubscriber
Note
Software borrowed the word for one side of the publish–subscribe pattern. A publisher announces events without knowing who is listening; subscribers register interest in a topic or kind of event, sometimes through a broker that sits between the two. That loose coupling is the point: new subscribers can be added without touching the publisher's code.
- 3A member of the Jehovah's Witnesses who serves as a preacher.
Two publishers from the Kingdom Hall stood beside a literature cart outside the station.
Each publisher in the congregation spends part of the week preaching from house to house.
Note
Inside a Jehovah's Witness congregation the word covers anyone who shares in the public preaching, door to door or beside a literature cart, rather than a rank of clergy. Elsewhere a reader will hear the book company first, so give the word a setting, such as a Kingdom Hall or a congregation, when the religious sense is meant.
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Origin
Formed from publish + -er.