typescript
Americannoun
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a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.
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typewritten matter, as distinguished from handwritten or printed matter.
noun
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a typed copy of a document, literary script, etc
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any typewritten material
Etymology
Origin of typescript
Example Sentences
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Of particular interest is a page of an annotated typescript from “A Perfect Spy” on which Le Carré’s U.S. editor Robert Gottlieb has written, “too much, this part reads like pure memoir.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Peter Harrington Rare Books has possessed the typescript since the start of 2024 and has been cataloguing and conducting research on it, as well as making it ready for sale.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024
In the same letter, he informed Jonquiéres that he had sent a typescript to Baudizzone.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023
Zoe Leonard’s blistering 1992 typescript, “I want a president,” is timely and prescient.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023
As long as there is a single copy, a solitary typescript of my final draft, then my spontaneous, fortuitous sister and her medical prince survive to love.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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