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short⋅hand

  [shawrt-hand]
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–noun
1. a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand ).
2. a simplified or makeshift manner or system of communication: We spoke in a kind of pidgin shorthand to overcome the language barrier.
–adjective
3. using or able to use shorthand.
4. written in shorthand.
5. of or pertaining to shorthand.
Origin:
1630–40; short + hand
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short·hand   (shôrt'hānd')   
n.  
  1. A system of rapid handwriting employing symbols to represent words, phrases, and letters.
  2. A system, form, or instance of abbreviated or formulaic reference: "The classical error is to regard a scientific law as only a shorthand for its instances" (Jacob Bronowski).
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Shorthand

Short"hand`\, n. A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
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Language Translation for : Shorthand
Spanish: taquigrafía,
German: die Kurzschrift,
Japanese: 速記
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shorthand 
method of rapid writing, 1636, from short (adj.) + hand as in handwriting. Short-handed "having too few 'hands' " is from 1794; the ice hockey sense is recorded from 1939.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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