typescript
Americannoun
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a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.
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typewritten matter, as distinguished from handwritten or printed matter.
noun
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a typed copy of a document, literary script, etc
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any typewritten material
Etymology
Origin of typescript
Example Sentences
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Of particular interest is a page of an annotated typescript from “A Perfect Spy” on which Le Carré’s U.S. editor Robert Gottlieb has written, “too much, this part reads like pure memoir.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
The cover shows evidence of stubbed-out cigarettes and the typescript contains Saint-Exupéry's handwritten notes, annotations, and edits on its pages.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024
Zoe Leonard’s blistering 1992 typescript, “I want a president,” is timely and prescient.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023
In the late 1950s, as America welcomed Jack Kerouac’s 120 feet of spontaneous typescript, a different kind of scroll was underway on the West Coast.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2022
I am returning the typescript under separate cover.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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