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词汇 shorthand
释义 shorthand
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈʃɔːt.hænd/ us /ˈʃɔːrt.hænd/(alsostenography)
a system of fast writing that uses lines and simple signs to represent words and phrases: 速记(法)
Their conversations were taken down in shorthand by a secretary.他们谈话的内容由一位秘书速记了下来。
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Idiom


shorthand for something

shorthand | American Dictionary


shorthand
noun[ U ]
us/ˈʃɔrtˌhænd/
a system of fast writing, using lines and symbols to represent letters, words, and phrases

shorthand | Business English


shorthand
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈʃɔːthænd/us
WORKPLACE, MEETINGS (alsostenography)
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 shorthandI couldn't do shorthand so they said they couldn't hire me as a secretary.
in shorthandToday's secretaries are just as likely to tell their boss how to use a laptop as to take a letter in shorthand.
 be shorthand for sth
to be a short or quick way of referring to something:
Wi-fi is shorthand for wireless fidelity.
to be another way of saying that something has a particular quality:
With some products "made in the U.S.A." remains shorthand for reliability.

Examples of shorthand


shorthand
The phrases 'badly off ' and 'well off ' are just useful placeholders, or imprecise shorthands that stand for a range of levels of well-being.
Time-tables have been entirely altered, there are long queues of exasperated people held up at the stations, and the railway clerks who are shorthanded are now faced with this burden.
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Hansard archive

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Even if ' verb ' is taken here as a shorthand for ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs.
The team was the least penalized team during the regular season, being shorthanded only 375 times.
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Wikipedia

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A major exception is when a team is shorthanded.
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Wikipedia

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The shorthand exp() will also denote a generic random variable with that distribution.
Thus, a program containing variables is considered as a shorthand of its ground instantiation.
Instead of introducing that definition, we can treat any program with weight constraints as shorthand for its translation [].
The militia was shorthanded during the battle, as most of the fort's detachment were not present.
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Wikipedia

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The penalized team can not replace the player on the floor and is thus shorthanded for the duration of the penalty.
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Wikipedia

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The chief points of the indictment were encapsulated in the shorthand of book indexers.
As we have seen, they are shorthand symbols serving to indicate the emotive quality attached to an utterance.
Linguists use family tree diagrams as a form of pictorial shorthand to illustrate the relationship and development of languages and groups of languages within families.
As a shorthand, it is sometimes necessary to refer to class as relative positioning.
We have already cited examples of this approach : advertisements that value older people as individuals rather than as shorthand symbols of age.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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