0 shorthand (= system of fast writing) --
1 a system for recording speech quickly by writing it down in shorthand or by using a special machine --
2 → shorthand --
Using stenography (shorthand) methods, this rate increases greatly.
She worked as an au pair, studied stenography and became a model for a time.
He transferred to a local business college and studied bookkeeping and stenography.
He subsequently studied law, but was chiefly interested in stenography.
He established what became a lucrative court reporting (legal stenography) business, which made him financially prosperous.
He studied stenography and later began an apprenticeship with a law firm.
He taught himself stenography, and was considered expert in that craft when he was admitted to the bar in 1889.
Faced with financial difficulties for much of his life, he supplemented his income by working in stenography, which he had learned from his father.
