Gestetner

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verb

To make a paper copy.

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

verbGestetner (third-person singular simple present Gestetners, present participle Gestetnering, simple past and past participle Gestetnered)

present singular third person Gestetners · participle present Gestetnering · participle past Gestetnered · past Gestetnered

  1. datedTo make a paper copy.

    In grade five I started a school newspaper which I would painstakingly Gestetner during recess.

    2015, Magda Szubanski, Reckoning, page 76

Origin

From the Gestetner duplicating machine named after its inventor, David Gestetner.

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APA

Gestetner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gestetner

MLA

“Gestetner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gestetner. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gestetner,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gestetner.

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