On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Shorthand. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as written or stenography and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Shorthand meaning
- A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc.
- Any brief or shortened way of saying or doing something.
Synonyms of Shorthand
Using Shorthand
- The main meaning on this page is: A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc. | Any brief or shortened way of saying or doing something.
- Useful related words include: written, stenography, tachygraphy, handwriting.
- In the example corpus, shorthand often appears in combinations such as: shorthand for, as shorthand, the shorthand.
Context around Shorthand
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shorthand
- In this selection, "shorthand" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, use, measurement, cultural, symbol, use and way stand out and add context to how "shorthand" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a snappy shorthand and nicknames and and damaging shorthand. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shorthand" sits close to words such as amiga, bawumia and briefs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shorthand
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mourn 64!" - shorthand for the sensitive date. (7 words)
It’s clever with its color shorthand, too. (8 words)
They have a shorthand for their bodies as well. (9 words)
The shorthand to this season is you're getting some Star Wars, you're getting some Vampires, you get some spy stuff with some infiltration, and you're getting a lot of explosions that you get to look cool walking away from. (42 words)
Doing the Camino,” the shorthand way of saying one is going on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, has been on my “bucket list” since 2005 when I first heard about it from a German friend. (38 words)
It was really nice having this cultural shorthand and not having to worry about, like, if I say something negative about my Korean American upbringing, is that going to lead to a pathologization of my culture? (36 words)
It was really nice having this cultural shorthand and not having to worry about, like, if I say something negative about my Korean American upbringing, is that going to lead to a pathologization of my culture? (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Measurement shorthand—symbol or abbreviation Road sign in China—"km" is a symbol, not an abbreviation, as it is not a contraction of a Chinese word Writers often use shorthand to denote units of measure.
Shorthand Several systems of shorthand use diacritics for vowels, but they do not have an inherent vowel, and are thus more similar to Thaana and Kurdish script than to the Brahmic scripts.
Archival work largely depends on a reader’s ability to read hard-to-read texts in shorthand and/or cursive.
It was really nice having this cultural shorthand and not having to worry about, like, if I say something negative about my Korean American upbringing, is that going to lead to a pathologization of my culture?
Let these not become merely rubbed-down shorthand for anonymous atrocity.
Mourn 64!" - shorthand for the sensitive date.
Outreach to the so-called “Global South”, shorthand for some low- and middle-income countries including India, has been a focus at this year’s Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima.
The persuasion of Pitman shorthand (C8) lives on, Shirley Rider: “I learnt it at business college in 1965 and used it for decades,” says Pam Linnett of Twin Waters (Qld).
The phrase's explosion began with the late November debut of an online "documentary" by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand.
The shorthand to this season is you're getting some Star Wars, you're getting some Vampires, you get some spy stuff with some infiltration, and you're getting a lot of explosions that you get to look cool walking away from.
They have a shorthand for their bodies as well.
Doing the Camino,” the shorthand way of saying one is going on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, has been on my “bucket list” since 2005 when I first heard about it from a German friend.
Email is fast and efficient and thrives on shorthand responses often written at speed.
I’m going to use shorthand here without much explanation, as we’ve done our best to explain the finer points in numerous previous posts (see for example ).
It’s clever with its color shorthand, too.
It's these incredibly physical encounters that a meet cute is shorthand for.
Like Hamas and other PA Arab terrorist groups, Tlaib is on record as opposing a two-state solution in favor of the maximalist one-state model, which is shorthand for the dismantling of Jewish self-governance.
Martin now plans to donate Derek’s shorthand notes from the Moors Murders trial, some of which have been transcribed, to a national archive.
One of his first commands as president was a call to members of the faith to stop using the shorthand names “Mormon” and “LDS” as substitutes for the full name of the religion.
Ruby and A.J. have a snappy shorthand and nicknames for the suitors of yesteryear, and the show gets some fun mileage from enumerating exactly what acts Ruby did and did not do with various partners.
Common combinations with shorthand
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shorthand for 55×
- as shorthand 28×
- the shorthand 11×
- is shorthand 8×
- of shorthand 7×
- shorthand and 7×
- shorthand to 6×
- in shorthand 4×
- become shorthand 4×
- use shorthand 3×