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Definition of "press-room" [press-room]

  • An apartment in which presses for any purpose are kept. (noun)
  • <strong>2</strong> In printing, a room where printing-presses are worked, as distinguished from a composing-room, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "press-room" in a sentence
  • "A cone of silence was ordered too perhaps even more necessary to seal off police beat journalists, denizens of Police Plaza's venerable press-room, "The Shack", from any hint of what was to come."
  • "Then the fight was on, and it went on, without rounds, for thirty minutes, until the press-room door was opened."
  • "A few seasons ago in the José Mourinho era, waiting for a Chelsea game to start, a couple of visiting Japanese journalists broke off watching the live early kick-off on the press-room TV to ask for information about one of the participants."