Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stenographer.
- n. Stenography.
Wiktionary
- n. a stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand
Etymologies
- a clipping of stenographer Derived from Ancient Greek στενοσις "stenosis" meaning shortening or narrowing, a limiting of size. γραφω grapho, also from Greek, meaning "I write". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hell, I didn't get my degree in steno to put my life on the line.”
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“Does a David Brown want to catch a steno-pad lonely heart or a happy-hour sex kitten who can hardly fit him onto her dance card?”
“York City summer, scrappy steno-turned-sleuth Faye Quick kicked upstairs when her boss ships out takes on a new case that would make even the most experienced P.I. sweat bullets.”
“I've got 2 steno pads at work that use to keep a task list and meeting minutes in.”
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“Setting the photograph down Mahler scribbled a few notes on a nearby steno pad.”
“Honestly, my 90-year-old mother with a box of wine and steno pad could've found out more information about this guy.”
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“He was carrying a tape recorder and what looked like a steno pad.”
“When word processing software replaced typewriters, nobody shrieked about a socialist revolution in the steno pool.”
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“She would've sent the wittiest emails, and texting would've recalled the short-hand she had jotted on steno pads at work in the late '50s.”
“- Plays: Peggy Olson, who went from being the new girl in the steno pool at Sterling Cooper to a copywriter -- and just got an office of her own.”
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slumry A stenographer
I heard it in speech this morning--don't know when I last thought this word. It reminds me of the time I came home from second grade and announced that Donelda's uncle was a teletype. My mother explained that he was not a teletype, he was a teletype operator. "But Donelda said. . . "
Anyway, this one is for you, reesetee. Jun 27, 2007