stop press

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Meaning: (UK,journalism)Theeventornews articleimportant enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of anewspaperedition.1989,Textual Introduction toThe Anatomy of Melancholy,Robert Burton[1]Three of the errata corrections had already been made asstop-presscorrections [...]2002,Russell Miller,Behind the Lines[2]FakedStop 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 theStop Press.2005,Mary Norway,The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It,[3]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.)2023March 8, “Tube drivers announce "first day of action"”, inRAIL, number978, page11:STOP PRESS: As this issue ofRAILwent to press, the RMT announced that it too would be taking strike action on the Tube on March 15

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