Dictaphone

[dik-tuh-fohn]

Trademark.

a brand name for a dictating machine.

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Examples from the Web for dictaphone

There, in his empty office, he tells his story to a Dictaphone (channeling Double Indemnity) of how he became “Devin Morehouse.”
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That Charles Willard Diffin composes his stuff on a dictaphone.
The Fantasy Fan January 1934|Various
Another does expert work with the typewriter and dictaphone.
Five Lectures on Blindness|Kate M. Foley
The dictaphone couldn't record the grimace that jerked his lips.
In the Dark|Ronal Kayser

I wonder,” said Walker, “if they have, found the dictaphone as yet.
Ted Marsh on an Important Mission|Elmer Sherwood
And the dictaphone that Leo thought he wanted, till about half an hour after it was paid for.
Special Delivery|Damon Francis Knight

British Dictionary definitions for dictaphone

Dictaphone

noun

trademark a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing

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Word Origin and History for dictaphone

Dictaphone

trademarked by the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1907; from dictation + -phone. A separate company from 1923.