bill·post·er

(bĭl′pō′stər)

One that posts notices, posters, or advertisements. Also called billsticker.

bill′post′ing n.

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billposter

(ˈbɪlˌpəʊstə) or

billsticker

a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc

ˈbillˌposting, ˈbillˌsticking n

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Translations

billposter

[ˈbɪlˌpəʊstəʳ] billsticker [ˈbɪlˌstɪkəʳ] N → pegador(a) m/f de carteles

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

billposter

, billsticker

n → Plakat(an)kleber m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

billposter

[ˈbɪlˌpəʊstəʳ] n bill£sticker (Am) [ˈbɪlˌstɪkəʳ] n → attacchino

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References in periodicals archive

We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

"A powerful beacon": love illuminating human attachment in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

Paying spectators abandoned their inhibitions, staring openly at, even touching, foreign performers; those outside the theatres absorbed ubiquitous billposters.

Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The first job was to take down last week's cinema billposters and put up the new ones.

MORNING SERIAL

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