proof-listen

A form of prooflisten — To listen, usually to a recording, for errors.

Meanings

verbproof-listen (third-person singular simple present proof-listens, present participle proof-listening, simple past and past participle proof-listened)

present singular third person proof-listens · participle present proof-listening · participle past proof-listened · past proof-listened

  1. alternativeAlternative form of prooflisten.

    For years she proof-listened taped books (from romantic fiction to multi-volume biographies) for the visually handicapped; […]

    2000 March 4, Christine Webb, “Letter”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 6
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    The New Mexico Solar Energy Association has come to the VIS office with a new list of requests for volunteers. The first need is for someone to proof-listen tapes on solar energy made for use by blind people.

    1978 November 26, “Volunteer Information Service”, in Sunday New Mexican, 129th year, number 318, Santa Fe, N.M., →OCLC, page D8, column 7

    Roger Schonewald, right, of Belle Mead reads aloud from a textbook while Bob Warner of Montgomery proof-listens during Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic’s ninth annual Record-A-Thon Monday during the opening of the New Jersey unit’s new facility at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Princeton.

    2003 May 17, “RFB&D opens new facility; volunteers record textbooks”, in The Times, Burlington metro edition, Trenton, N.J., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B2, column 2
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