stenography

[ stuh-nog-ruh-fee ]

/ stəˈnɒg rə fi /

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noun

the art of writing in shorthand.

RELATED WORDS

shorthand, phonography, stenotype

Nearby words

Origin of stenography

First recorded in 1595–1605; steno- + -graphy

Related formssten·o·graph·ic

[sten-uh-graf-ik] /ˌstɛn əˈgræf ɪk/, sten·o·graph·i·cal, adjectivesten·o·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for stenography

O'Keefe thinks it's a form of "guerrilla theater" and that journalists in America tend to do a lot of "stenography."
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Last Fall sixty girls, accompanied by a trusty guide, started on an exploring tour through the wilderness of stenography.
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Stenography (or bookkeeping) is a more important study than wood-working.
Business English|Rose Buhlig
And to all of them she—who was going to be rich and powerful, directly she was good for one hundred words a minute at stenography!
The Job|Sinclair Lewis

If she could not do better at stenography, she must cease to spend her income trying to master the subject.
The Shadow|Mary White Ovington
A fine play is not the copy of an incident or the stenography of a character.
Plays, Acting and Music|Arthur Symons

British Dictionary definitions for stenography

stenography

/ (stəˈnɒɡrəfɪ) /

noun

the act or process of writing in shorthand by hand or machine

matter written in shorthand

Derived Formsstenographic (ˌstɛnəˈɡræfɪk) or stenographical, adjectivestenographically, adverb

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Word Origin and History for stenography

stenography

"shorthand," c.1600, from Greek stenos "narrow" (of unknown origin) + -graphy.