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  • adjective of text Formatted so that there is a full blank line between each line of text; the style of formatting required by many entities inside business, academia, and publishing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of type or print) having a blank line between lines of type

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Examples

  • There's twenty-three lines to a single double-spaced page, so I have 253 words to a page.

    What's In A Word Count? 2009

  • The font also needs to be sized "12", and the page double-spaced with one inch margins on all sides.

    What's In A Word Count? 2009

  • As Republicans spent the morning republishing the document in single-paged, double-spaced, 72-point font so they can ferry it around in a wheelbarrow and moan about government largess, the HuffPost team scoured the document for things that will make you angry or not.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Jean Schmidt Under Investigation Eliot Nelson 2011

  • There's twenty-three lines to a single double-spaced page, so I have 253 words to a page.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • In December of last year I submitted a short manuscript, a "communication" that was merely 4 double-spaced pages long, to the Journal of Conchology.

    Archive 2009-04-01 AYDIN 2009

  • As Republicans spent the morning republishing the document in single-paged, double-spaced, 72-point font so they can ferry it around in a wheelbarrow and moan about government largess, the HuffPost team scoured the document for things that will make you angry or not.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Jean Schmidt Under Investigation Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Haridopolos was paid $152,000 by a community college in Florida to write a book about politics -- a book that the college didn't see fit to publish beyond the single 175-page, double-spaced manuscript he submitted which could be viewed only by appointment, making his per-book payday much greater than J.K. Rowling's for the entire Harry Potter series.

    Terry Krepel: Newsmax Gives Money, Fawning Coverage To Another Florida Politician Terry Krepel 2011

  • So if you're among the publishing folk it wouldn't hurt to put it out there that TNR double-spaced is super duper.

    Mystery of the Day 2009

  • A good day for most writers is five double-spaced pages of new material.

    Q & A with Sheldon Siegel 2010

  • The font also needs to be sized "12", and the page double-spaced with one inch margins on all sides.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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