publishing

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
publish/ˈpʌblɪʃ/

▶verb

• 1 prepare and issue (a book, journal, or piece of music) for public sale.

  ■ print in a book or journal so as to make generally known.

• 2 formally announce or read (an edict or marriage banns).

• 3 Law communicate (a libel) to a third party.

– derivatives
publishable adjective,
publishing noun.

– origin ME: from the stem of OFr. puplier, from L. publicare ‘make public’, from publicus (see public).