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shorthand English

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shorthand

Shorthand is a shortened or simplified way of referring to something.

shorthand

written in abbreviated or symbolic form shorthand notes a method of writing rapidly

Synonyms shorthand synonyms

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Simple sentences

I've decided to learn shorthand.
This is shorthand.
That girl couldn't take things down in longhand, let alone shorthand.
Tom learned shorthand from Mary.
Mary has excellent shorthand skills and works as a hansard reporter in parliament.
My sister studied to be a stenographer. She still uses shorthand sometimes when she takes notes.

Movie subtitles

Wouldn't you like me to hide under the sofa and take shorthand notes?
You taking this down in that newfangled shorthand?
Between the lines of an innocent-appearing letter invisibly coded in an obsolete German shorthand were important instructions for one group of spies.
All in there, in shorthand.
Stay on the line and get a shorthand note of what we say.
Shorthand? Yes, a little bit.
I'm doing it because it pays more than shorthand or clerking or typing. - I know that, Cathy.
How's your shorthand?
She can type, take shorthand and knows the islands.
Take shorthand?
Ken's opponent in Tuesday's fight is Petula Wilcox, the Birmingham girl who was a shorthand typist before turning pro in 1968.
Pity I don't know shorthand, or I'd have taken it down.
Practise her shorthand.
You really mean that she can typewrite and take shorthand, too?
Shorthand pad and magnifying glass.
Shorthand, type writing?
My dear young woman, you can't type, you don't know shorthand. you've never operated a Comptometer. and I suspect you've never even seen a billing machine.
If a doctor asks me to hang by one arm from the ceiling, wearing an aqualung, with my birthday tattooed on my left buttock in shorthand, I'll do it.
I'm gonna take up shorthand.
So, when you open your own office, there I am, a shorthand secretary.
Doesn't matter if I learn shorthand or to play a bugle standing on my head.
You'll give the map to the American. Your instructions are written in shorthand.
Shorthand?
I'm doing it because it pays more than shorthand or clerking or typing.
It's just like shorthand.
Shorthand pad and magnifying glass. And the money we just leave here?
And your shorthand?
Get on this line, take everything down in shorthand.
Oh, they're your own shorthand notes, are they?
She's a great organizer? A whiz at shorthand?
Do not forget the shorthand, mademoiselle. - But I told you I don't do shorthand.
The shorthand is the, the Butterfly Effect.
SCHINDLER: Filing, billing, keeping track of my appointments, shorthand.
If only I'd looked a little further. I'd have found the kindest, sweetest, gentlest girl that ever took shorthand.
It's engineering shorthand, sir.

News and current affairs

Darfur is shorthand for the latest example of a recurring international problem, one that gained headlines a decade ago in Rwanda.

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