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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
video recorder
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bob has taken the plunge & acquired a video recorder - masquerading as my birthday present to him.
▪ Even with the kids, wanting to show them things on the video recorder.
▪ They made off with a video recorder, music centre and jewellery from the property in Turker Lane.
▪ Typical examples might include: a duvet, gardening equipment, a video recorder, a home computer, hobby materials and so on.
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Video recorder

A video recorder may be any of several related devices:

  • Digital video recorder (DVR); Personal video recorder (PVR)
  • DVD recorder
  • Videocassette recorder (VCR)
  • Video tape recorder (VTR)

Usage examples of "video recorder".

Bosch looked around for Donovan and saw him stowing a video recorder in the back of the blue crime scene van.

Bullard made a second threat, just before you arrived, for the benefit of the video recorder.

She touched the button that activated the video recorder and went to work.

Larry went out to get some pizza, and we relaxed and watched as Cecil played back the tape, hooking the video recorder up to a television that the band had.

You wouldn't want your video recorder lounging around on the sofa all day while it was watching TV.

The little pink and brown stone bears lay scattered on the floor, the chrysanthemum plant and its dirt were trampled into the carpet, the chrysanthemum pot itself was embedded in the smashed screen of the television, the video recorder had been torn from its unit and dropped, the video cassettes of the races lay pulled out in yards of ruined tape.

The video recorder was equipped with a small lapel mike, into which he would make oral observations.

Malavade said, hanging up the phone and starting his video recorder.

The speaker on the video recorder had distorted his voice, but it sounded vaguely familiar.

Some teenager in a bathrobe was there with a goddamn Toshiba video recorder.

He finally decided, after consulting his video recorder's instruction book, that he could tape TV3 while he watched Channel Eight.