adjective

• 1(of a book, journal, piece of music, etc.) prepared and issued for public sale or readership.

  ‘the collection includes the complete published works of Benjamin Britten’

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  • ‘thirty-one published articles were reviewed for potential inclusion’

  1. 1.1(of a writer) having had a work prepared and issued for public sale or readership.
     ‘a course that offers the opportunity to have your writing critiqued by a published author’
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     • ‘Franco is also a published novelist and poet’
• 2(of information) printed or made available online so as to be generally known.

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  • ‘there is very little published data on the subject’