- Rapid writing method - Secretarial skill - A compendious and rapid method or writing by
substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words,
etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
- angry post he sent off was in shorthand - Secretarial skill - Shorthand - The art of writing in shorthand, by using
abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.