Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Using exactly the same words; corresponding word for word.
- adverb In exactly the same words; word for word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Word for word; in exactly the same words: sometimes extended into the phrase verbatim, literatim, et punctatin, word for word, letter for letter, and point for point, as in the most exact transcription, in bibliography, etc.
- By word of mouth; orally; verbally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Word for word; in the same words; verbally.
- adverb word for word, and letter for letter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
- adjective of a document
Corresponding with theoriginal word for word . - adjective of a person
Able to take down aspeech word for word, especially inshorthand . - noun A word-for-word
report of a speech.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb using exactly the same words
- adjective in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE ABC News obtained a copy of an unpublished book proposal with quotes from what it calls a verbatim transcript from an interview Schwarzenegger gave in 1975.
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Their 'alternate' health care plan was a 3 page outline, also lacking any cost estimates, and 80% of the points were lifted near verbatim from the Obama plan.
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Their 'alternate' health care plan was a 3-page outline with no cost estimates, 80% of which was stolen verbatim from the Obama plan.
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Their 'alternate' health care plan is a 3-page outline with NO cost estimates and 80% of its points are stolen verbatim from the Obama plan.
McConnell: Public option a nonstarter for Senate Republicans 2009
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It is a 3 page outline with no cost estimates, 80% of which was stolen verbatim from the Obama plan.
GOP: Dems' health care reform plan 'a prescription for disaster' 2009
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It was a 3 page outline, with no cost estimates, and 80% of it was just taken near-verbatim from the democratic health care plan.
Sanford ally in South Carolina Senate calls for resignation 2009
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To my Chinese friends here in Hong Kong, "how people are educated, how trust relations are established and how accountability is exercised" would sound very close to repeating verbatim from the Analects by Confucius.
The China Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Their 'alternate' health care plan is a 3 page outline with no cost estimates, and 80% of it was stolen verbatim from the Obama plan.
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And ironically 80% of that outline was stolen verbatim from the Obama plan. gerry
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It was a 3 page outline, with no cost estimates, and 80% of it was just taken near-verbatim from the Obama health care plan.
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