Longman Dictionary English From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Newspapers, printing, publishingbookbindingbook‧bind‧ing /ˈbʊkˌbaɪndɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] TCNthe process of fastening the pages of books inside a cover —bookbinder noun [countable]Examples from the Corpusbookbinding• Smith's closed the bookbinding section on his death in 1945. ldoceonline.com