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
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
Peter Harrington Rare Books has possessed the typescript since the start of 2024 and has been cataloguing and conducting research on it, as well as making it ready for sale.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024
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
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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