出版社・出版者|しゅっぱんしゃshuppansha

1. nounpublisher; publishing house; publishing company
   あの出版社しゅっぱんしゃは黒字くろじだ。↗

   That publishing company is in the black.

• Synonym出版元しゅっぱんもとWrittenWritten word for the publishing party, seen chiefly on book copyright pages and stressing who is responsible; 「出版社」 is the general term.
• Synonym版元はんもとWrittenWritten word used in the trade as an alias for 「出版社」; in the Edo period it also meant the merchant who published books and ukiyo-e.
• Related発行所はっこうじょNeutralNeutral word for the office that issues a publication; printed on the copyright pages of books, newspapers and magazines, and leaning formal.
• Related出版業者しゅっぱんぎょうしゃWrittenWritten, industry-flavored word for a company or individual engaged in publishing as a business.

Call a publishing company 「出版社」. On copyright pages the publisher appears as 「出版元」, 「版元」 or 「発行所」; 「出版業者」 is a trade term for a business in publishing.

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1. 雑誌ざっしや書籍しょせきなどの出版しゅっぱんをする会社かいしゃ。