shorthandedly

adv — 2 senses

shorthandedly

adv

Etymology From shorthanded + -ly.

1

In a shorthanded manner.

  • Some form of self-steering on a cruising yacht, whether electronic or wind powered, is a necessity if a vessel is to cruise shorthandedly in comfort and safety.1980 Jul-Dec, Peter Watson, “Do-it-yourself Wind Vane Steering Gear”, in Cruising World, page 116:
2

Using shorthand or as a form of shorthand.

  • Taking Gomery's well-argued point, it still seems that a new kind of publicity and new sets of social practices that can be shorthandedly described as "television" did replace the cinema as the central site of phantasmatic Americanness at this historical juncture.2000, Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, →ISBN, page 140:
  • These “privatized” rents are not directly controlled by the authoritarian state and they cannot be, in classic rentier-state logic, shorthandedly distributed according to political considerations.2013, Holger Albrecht, Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt, →ISBN, page 26:

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