1 writing done by hand usually with a pen or pencil:
He wrote the confession in longhand and signed it.
Gone are the days of writing in longhand in higher education notebooks!
Today, most police forces tape-record interviews and statements, but some years ago all statements were written down, in longhand, by a policeman, then read and signed by the suspect.
I think it is the inability of the reporters to transcribe their reports into longhand, and to deliver them to the printers.
They are very long-winded, having to be taken down in longhand or sometimes straight on to a typewriter.
If it did not do so, the writing of shorthand would in all human probability be no quicker than longhand.
A note of the evidence taken in longhand, and corrected by the witnesses, will be available for inspection at the close of the inquiry.
The reporter took down the proceedings in longhand.
I am sure that the gentleman who did it wrote it in longhand and had no knowledge of shorthand.
