# publisher

Pronunciation: US say "PUB-li-sher" /ˈpʌblɪʃɚ/; UK say "PUB-li-shuh" /ˈpʌblɪʃə/

## Noun

1. A person or, more often, a company that publishes material, especially books.
   - Simple: A company, or sometimes a person, that prepares books and other works and puts them out for the public.
   - _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._
2. In software, a system or component that lets other components, called subscribers, receive notifications of something such as an event.
   - Simple: In computer programs, a part that sends news of events to other parts that have asked to hear about them.
   - _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._
3. A member of the Jehovah's Witnesses who serves as a preacher.
   - Simple: A Jehovah's Witness who preaches, telling other people about the faith.
   - _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._

## Origin

Formed from publish + -er.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/publisher (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).