keypunch
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to punch holes in (a punch card or paper tape), using a keypunch.
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to insert (data) into a computer by means of a keypunch.
to keypunch code numbers.
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Origin of keypunch
Example Sentences
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“She didn’t have $300 for an abortionist and couldn‘t afford to lose her job as a keypunch operator.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2019
A handful of keypunch crooks have already thought of some ingenious ways to defraud the Brain, with varying results.
From Time Magazine Archive
Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. offers 25-hour work weeks within which keypunch operators can almost select their own hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not have to be sorted at an 18-bin station called a "tingle table," numbered and coded by hand and sent to a keypunch operator who enters the data into IRS computers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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