Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stenographer.
- noun Stenography.
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- noun a
stenographer , someone whose job is to takedictation inshorthand
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hell, I didn't get my degree in steno to put my life on the line.
This Dame For Hire: Summary and book reviews of This Dame For Hire by Sandra Scoppettone. 2005
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Does a David Brown want to catch a steno-pad lonely heart or a happy-hour sex kitten who can hardly fit him onto her dance card?
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Does a David Brown want to catch a steno-pad lonely heart or a happy-hour sex kitten who can hardly fit him onto her dance card?
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I've got 2 steno pads at work that use to keep a task list and meeting minutes in.
3Banana Uses Hash Tags To Keep Your Notes Tidy | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Setting the photograph down Mahler scribbled a few notes on a nearby steno pad.
Looking For Olivia Meredith Greene 2011
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York City summer, scrappy steno-turned-sleuth Faye Quick kicked upstairs when her boss ships out takes on a new case that would make even the most experienced P.I. sweat bullets.
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"Honestly, my 90-year-old mother with a box of wine and steno pad could've found out more information about this guy."
Kathy Griffin's Advice to Chris Harrison: Do Better Bachelor Background Checks 2011
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He was carrying a tape recorder and what looked like a steno pad.
The Fountain 2010
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When word processing software replaced typewriters, nobody shrieked about a socialist revolution in the steno pool.
Martin Luz: Fealty to Folly: Oil Is Dead! Long Live Oil! 2010
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She would've sent the wittiest emails, and texting would've recalled the short-hand she had jotted on steno pads at work in the late '50s.
slumry commented on the word steno
A stenographer
I heard it in speech this morning--don't know when I last thought this word. It reminds me of the time I came home from second grade and announced that Donelda's uncle was a teletype. My mother explained that he was not a teletype, he was a teletype operator. "But Donelda said. . . "
Anyway, this one is for you, reesetee.
June 27, 2007