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ON PAPER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

As written or printed

Example:

this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper

Synonyms:

in writing; on paper

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

 Context examples: 

By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper), and was already deep in the concoction of her story, being unable to decide whether the duel should come before the elopement or after the murder.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I made my humblest acknowledgment to this illustrious person, for his great communicativeness; and promised, if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native country, that I would do him justice, as the sole inventor of this wonderful machine; the form and contrivance of which I desired leave to delineate on paper, as in the figure here annexed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)