dictaphone
Noun
Meaning
a tape recorder that records and reproduces dictation
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Examples
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
Now in the United States, if I am a doctor, and I diagnose 100 patients every day, they use the dictaphone and give dictation or get a secretary to write up all the diagnoses.
Police who investigated whether illegal recording had occurred closed the case without being able to speak to Barclay and without seeking search warrants to obtain the dictaphone or transcripts from the office or his home.