SHORTHAND Definition & Meaning

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shorthand

[ shawrt-hand ]

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a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases ( longhand ).
a simplified or makeshift manner or system of communication:
We spoke in a kind of pidgin shorthand to overcome the language barrier.

shorthand

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1. a system of rapid handwriting employing simple strokes and other symbols to represent words or phrases
2. ( as modifier )
  a shorthand typist

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First recorded in 1630–40; short + hand

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They have an easy shorthand that suggests a long history.

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The bird, in an inevitable shorthand created by the press, was given the sobriquet "Goldie", as he became headline news.

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The name has lately been taken up by a modern network of jovial California history lovers, shorthand name “The Clampers.”

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He told the Guardian newspaper he had "used shorthand" in a speech "over a decade ago".

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The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in Somalia.

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