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typescript

American  
[tahyp-skript] / ˈtaɪpˌskrɪpt /

noun

  1. a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.

  2. typewritten matter, as distinguished from handwritten or printed matter.


typescript British  
/ ˈtaɪpˌskrɪpt /

noun

  1. a typed copy of a document, literary script, etc

  2. any typewritten material

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of typescript

1890–95, type + script (on the model of manuscript )

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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

He said there was the possibility a museum or library outside of Europe could buy the typescript in November, which could show a "recognition of its global status".

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

My husband, Michael Frayn, is finishing a book and I hope to read the typescript of that next.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2021

She picked up the bundle of typescript in an idle moment while passing through this office on her way to luncheon, asked to take it home to read, and finished it that afternoon.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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