Meaning & use

electric typewriter

noun·Advanced

A typewriter powered by electricity, which strikes the keys with less manual effort than a mechanical one.

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She wrote her first novel on an electric typewriter she bought secondhand.

Electric typewriters became common in offices before personal computers took over.

A note on using this word

Electric typewriters were popular from the mid-20th century until personal computers and word processors largely replaced them in the 1980s and 1990s.

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