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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 )

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

Viewers will also see the typescript drafts for her 1964 book, “Grapefruit,” which includes more than 200 instructions in the form of music, painting, events, poetry and objects.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

This typescript is "much more intimate" than the other two, Mr Jay said, highlighting notes and "doodles" the author made on it.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

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

The bundle of letters relating to the purchase of the house were with the typescript.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker