closed-captioned

American  

[klohzd-kap-shuhnd] / ˈkloʊzdˈkæp ʃənd /

adjective

1. (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription or translation of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hard of hearing, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. CC

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closed-captioned British  

adjective

1. (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder

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Other Word Forms

• closed captioning noun

Etymology

Origin of closed-captioned

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

The only source of light comes from the television, which continues to play the closed-captioned Star Wars marathon we started earlier.

From Literature

Their expressive interpretations, experts say, are much cleaner and clearer to understand than closed-captioned subtitles, which are often computer generated and thus may be incorrect.

From Washington Times

“I don’t want to be sitting around watching closed-captioned TV,” he said.

From Washington Post

In a post ricocheting around Twitter yesterday, @DashRomero put up four closed-captioned stills of a video interview given by the rapper couple Papoose and Remy Ma.

From New York Times

It said the agency corrected it "two days after Ambassador Rice spoke," once it obtained closed-captioned television footage and FBI interviews.

From Chicago Tribune