tape-record
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of tape-record
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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I would hitchhike up and down College Avenue and then I would tape-record people inside the car, what they thought of me, what it was like living there.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
He told me, “Oh, gee, if people won’t let me tape-record, you could be my human tape recorder.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2018
Then another surprise: "We would like to tape-record your voice so all the people of Kampuchea can hear you."
From Time Magazine Archive
The story here begins, as so much of it does, with Lucianne Goldberg, the New York literary agent who first suggested that Tripp tape-record her conversations with Lewinsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
I told Archie what I had thought in prison about him; that his brain, which could tape-record hundreds of number combinations a day, should have been put at the service of mathematics or science.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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