0 a system of fast writing that uses lines and simple signs to represent words and phrases:
Their conversations were taken down in shorthand by a secretary.
1 a system of fast writing, using lines and symbols to represent letters, words, and phrases
2 a system of writing that uses lines and symbols to represent words and is used to record what someone says as they are speaking:
3 to be a short or quick way of referring to something:
With some products "made in the U.S.A." remains shorthand for reliability.
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.
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.
A major exception is when a team is shorthanded.
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 [].