Meaning & use
electric typewriter
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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