stenography

[ stuh-nog-ruh-fee ]

/ stəˈnɒg rə fi /

the art of writing in shorthand.

Origin of stenography

First recorded in 1595–1605; steno- + -graphy

sten·o·graph·ic

[sten-uh-graf-ik] /ˌstɛn əˈgræf ɪk/, sten·o·graph·i·cal, adjective sten·o·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

O'Keefe thinks it's a form of "guerrilla theater" and that journalists in America tend to do a lot of "stenography."

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Last Fall sixty girls, accompanied by a trusty guide, started on an exploring tour through the wilderness of stenography.

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Stenography (or bookkeeping) is a more important study than wood-working.

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And to all of them she—who was going to be rich and powerful, directly she was good for one hundred words a minute at stenography!

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If she could not do better at stenography, she must cease to spend her income trying to master the subject.

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A fine play is not the copy of an incident or the stenography of a character.

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stenography

/ (stəˈnɒɡrəfɪ) /

the act or process of writing in shorthand by hand or machine

matter written in shorthand

stenographic (ˌstɛnəˈɡræfɪk) or stenographical, adjective stenographically, adverb