go to press

go to press (third-person singular simple present goes to press, present participle going to press, simple past went to press, past participle gone to press)

1. (of a publication) To go to be printed, after editing is completed.
   • 1963 June, “News and Comment: The redundancy problem”, in Modern Railways, pages 362–363:

     The prospective staff redundancy that would ensue from adoption of the plan is, of course, one of the hotly controversial aspects of the proposals and the chief issue on which a three-day N.U.R. strike was threatened for May 14-16, a few days after this issue went to press.

   • 2023 March 8, “Tube drivers announce "first day of action"”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11:

     STOP PRESS: As this issue of RAIL went to press, the RMT announced that it too would be taking strike action on the Tube on March 15

• close for press

• “go to press”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.