a system of fast writing that uses lines and simple signs to represent words and phrases:
Their conversations were taken down in shorthand by a secretary.
(also stenography)
a system of fast writing that uses lines and simple signs to represent words and phrases:
Their conversations were taken down in shorthand by a secretary.
a system of fast writing, using lines and symbols to represent letters, words, and phrases
a system of writing that uses lines and symbols to represent words and is used to record what someone says as they are speaking:
do/know shorthand I couldn't do shorthand so they said they couldn't hire me as a secretary.
in shorthand Today's secretaries are just as likely to tell their boss how to use a laptop as to take a letter in shorthand.