stop press

1. 1.

   late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute

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Questions about stop press

What does stop press mean?

stop press means "late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute".

Is stop press a common word?

stop press is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.