Shorthand Definition

shôrthănd
noun
Any system of abbreviated writing using quickly made symbols to represent letters, words, and phrases; stenography.
Webster's New World
A system, form, or instance of abbreviated or formulaic reference.
American Heritage
A concise way of describing or referring to something.
Webster's New World
Any word, phrase, etc. used in this way.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Using or written in shorthand.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Shorthand

Noun

Singular:
shorthand
Plural:
shorthands

Shorthand Sentence Examples

  • It is a shorthand formula of registration.

  • He studied at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Yale, but left in his junior year (1857) to accept a position as a teacher of shorthand in the St Louis, Missouri, public schools.

  • The distinction between algebraical and arithmetical reasoning then lies mainly in the fact that the former is in a more condensed form than the latter; an unknown quantity being represented by a special symbol, and other symbols being used as a kind of shorthand for verbal expressions.

  • This man translated to him out of Chaldee into Hebrew, while Jerome dictated to a shorthand writer his own translation into Latin.

  • My work skills also helped as I could already do shorthand and typing.

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Words Starting With

SSHSHO

Words Ending With

DNDAND

Unscrambles

shorthand

Words Starting With S and Ending With D

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With S9 Letter Words Ending With D