: a typewritten manuscript
especially : one intended for use as printer's copy

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This edition belatedly restores Plath's original selection and arrangement of her searing poems and includes facsimiles of manuscript pages and her typescript with penned corrections. The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023 These typescript pages recount the life of his great-great-great-great-grandmother, the matriarch on his father’s side of the family. New York Times, 17 June 2022

Word History

Etymology

type + manuscript

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of typescript was in 1893

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“Typescript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typescript. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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