verbatim

using exactly the same words

TRANSLATION

wörtlich, wortwörtlich

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"One can find documents, including the transcripts of Eric Honnecker's talks -- transcripts, VERBATIM transcripts -- of his talks with foreign leaders. Brezhnev, Castro, others, available all the way up through 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, uncensored. This is a remarkable thing."

(Thomas Blanton at The Japan-United States Symposium,Tokyo, June 9, 1995)

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Verbatim is from Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Latin verbum word; and means "in the exact words"

Date: 15th century

Synonym: word-for-word

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