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auto-pen

auto-pen is the alternative form of autopen.

Meaning of autopen

Noun

autopen (plural autopens)

  1. A machine that automatically writes a person's signature.
    • But most offices either use autopens with the boss's name or simply have a staff member sign the boss's name to the correspondence.2003, William T. Endicott, An insider's guide to political jobs in Washington, page 99
    Synonyms:
    robo-pen

See all 2 meanings of autopen

Forms of auto-pen

Noun
pluralauto-pens
Verb
third-person singular presentauto-pens
present participleauto-penning
past participleauto-penned
pastauto-penned

Questions about auto-pen

What is auto-pen the alternative form of?
Auto-pen is the alternative form of autopen.

Words near auto-pen in the dictionary

  1. auto-mimicries
  2. auto-mimicry
  3. auto-off
  4. auto-Orientalism
  5. auto-oxidation
  6. auto-pen
  7. auto-plagiarism
  8. auto-recommend
  9. auto-recommended
  10. auto-recommending
  11. auto-recommends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auto-pen (page history and authors); autopen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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