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Device for destroying documents
Answer for the clue "Device for destroying documents ", 8 letters:
shredder
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Shredder is a commercial chess program and chess engine developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993. Shredder won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in 1996 and 2000, the World Computer Chess Championship in 1999 and 2003, the World Computer ...
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n. a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, agent noun from shred (v.). In the paper disposal sense from 1950.
Usage examples of shredder.
He gave it back to Wigner, who dropped the microfiche in his desktop shredder.
After Martha returned to the kitchen, Sally told Thomas Shredder, Corey Harper, and David Mountebank, who had easily been persuaded to return for dinner and another conference, about the cemetery.
Three unindicted co-conspirators in business suits anxiously fed documents into a ninety-nine-dollar shredder just out of the box from Office Depot.
He turned his attention to a file folder marked AUTO INSURANCE and fed its contents into the shredder.
Shredder was about thirty, tall and lanky, and very intense, one of those men Quinlan tried to avoid like the plague.
A six-inch split opened to reveal a second baby face, complete with meat shredders.
If they'd been classified, the papers would have been disposed of properly in a burn bag or a crosscut shredder that would have converted them into powder.
He gathered up the printed copies of the e-mails, and after assuring himself he had memorized all the important details, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, he began running them one at a time through the small shredder beneath the chart table.
The usual faxes, calls and E-mail are plain text on ordinary machines, and I would love a shredder that actually worked.
And third, I know those harvest droids don't have internal shredders because those are Hapan model HD two thirty-four C's!