Retype

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To re-enter (text) using a keyboard. transitive

Example

More examples

"Then they retype the entire volume by hand, since there is no character recognition software for Nom letters."

Etymology

From re- + type.

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