word-processor

plural word-processors

1. alternativeAlternative form of word processor.

   There are two activities at which I am quite proficient, and they are playing the piano, where both hands are used, and keyboarding what were initially typewriters but later word-processors and finally computers.

   2021 April 1, Michael O’Neill, “Left-handed”, in Barry & District News, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Your letters…” section, page 16, column 5

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   It’s the faster, neater, cheaper features of these automatic word-processors along with “ability to change what is stored without redoing the whole job, that make these machines so valuable,” says [Allen F.] Rubin.

   1973 January 16, Robert Wilson, “A machine instead of a secretary”, in The Montreal Star, 105th year, number 13, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page C-2, columns 4–5

   This idea is a new wrapper around a pack of more-or-less familiar products: the company’s longtime namesake and flagship design program CorelDraw (whose name isn’t changing), word-processor WordPerfect, emulator Parallels, visualizing tool MindManager, file compressor WinZip and an assortment of others.

   2022 October 5, David Reevely, “New name, new boss, new pitch: Corel redux targets remote-work ease”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page FP3, column 1